A Couple of Things That You Might not Know about Virgil Tarikoss

1. The stingy bugger doesn't give you a Souvenir for completing his Strike Force.

2. Completing his Strike Force triggers a Zombie Apocalypse in a random Rogue Isles zone for some reason.

The first led me to suspect the second, since I did it twice trying to get the Souvenir, and both times a Zombie Apocalypse triggered in Cap right when we finished. So I kept my eyes open on global channels for Tarikoss SFs being run. Two times in the last day, a team has completed the SF with a Zombie Apocalypse triggering each time. Four out of four is too big of a coincidence for my tastes, so I'm calling that confirmed.

He should give a souvenir. "The Beast Beneath the Mountain". If he's not giving it, then there's a bug.

Also, he shouldn't be triggering a zombie invasion. That should be triggered by handing in Halloween Salvage. If he is triggering that, again, it's probably a bug.

I don't believe that we were ever told by a developer that X and only X can be a trigger for the Zombie Apocalypse. It might be a bug, or it might be intentional to have an extra trigger. The developers are often very coy about the details on these things. The Souvenir thing is almost certainly a bug.

Is it possible that the script calls the wrong command, and so instead of "give souvenir" it calls "Spawn Zombie Apocalypse"?

I'm not certain on the timing, though. It seems to trigger right at Strike Force Complete, rather than turning the mission in. If it was a scripting error, it should be when you turn in the final mission, as that's when the Souvenir award command happens. I could be wrong about when the Apocalypse triggers, though, as it all happens very quickly. If they're turning it in that quickly, they're the most dutiful Strike Force leaders I've ever been with, since most seem to be allergic to calling in that last mission.

Virgil Tarikoss also enjoys playing the cello.

On the weekends he moonlights as a caustic late-night talk-show host where he verbally berates people who disagree with his positions on psychology, agriculture and interpretive dance.

He also has a girlfriend named Glenda whom he loves very much, and they enjoy talking long walks on the beach and watching the spectres together.

As the original poster, and since I've basically put out all of the information that I have about the subject, I wholeheartedly approve of the new direction that this thread has taken.

If anyone wants to clarify the details, simply run the SF and get the timing of the Apocalypse settled. It's not like it's a particularly long or difficult SF, anyway.

Virgil Tarikoss had a dog named Maria. He loved that dog very much but she died recently, he got a new dog, a german shepherd named Raphael, but he knows in his heart it's not the same thing.

Virgil Tarikoss tried once to eat his weight in marshmallows, but admitted defeat on the fourth bag. He could not say "Fluffy Bunnies" for the next three days.

Virgl Tarikoss loves spaghetti but is allergic to tomatoes.

The Tarikoss SF and the Katie TF both trigger zombie invasions when completed. I think they have since last fall at least, possibly longer.

On Thurdsay nights he's known as Virginia Tarikoss.

Virgil has a strawberry shaped birth mark on his upper thi...ahem...arm.

Virgil Tarikoss once tricked an arsonist into putting out a fire. He's like that.

Virgil often plays Tennis with Dr Aeon. Neither is aware of the other's true identity, Tarikoss believes Dr. Aeon is a clerk named Anders Rutger and Aeon thinks Tarikoss is a salesman of furniture named Trevor Clarksson.

When Virgil originally immigrated to the Rogue Isles, his name was Virgil Tartarsauce, but a helpful clerk in the immigration office changed the spelling on his last name so people wouldn't laugh at him so much.

I did Virgil Tarikoss about half a year ago myself. Never got a souvenir.