Smoke And Mirrors Mission Walk Through

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Like all Missions, you won't miss this one when it makes it to your account. Your Mission Bar will be full of activity and there will be another page on your Current Events Module. This one takes you to Brazil and you are going to need to burn a lot of energy or spend Reward Points. Overall, I'm not sure it's worth all this work for one loot item. I guess if you are finished with everything, it will keep you busy and give you something to blow your energy and stamina on.

 Part One 

Interference

Fight 22 opponents in Brazil, clear 2 robbing boards, build two vehicles and you're done. You can clear the two robbing boards in any destination. There is an 18 hour wait between crafting items in the Chop Shop.

The loot rewards aren't any good but this is only the first part. You get 3 12 Gauges and 3 Grizzly Bears. Who wouldn't want to take a Grizzly Bear to a fight?

 Part Two

Might and Magic

Everybody hates the "Get Support From Your Mafia" task. Make life easier on yourself by using the Link-a-Nator or the Mission Crew Link bookmarklets by Team Spockholm.

While you wait, go to your fight page and take out all 12 Angry Cult Members. Each one will cost you 8 stamina to attack. The good news is you can't lose!

Do the job "Burn Down a Jungle Hideout", located in District 2 of Brazil, 12 times and collect your rewards. If you mastered Brazil on the Ruby Level, this will cost you 243 energy a pop for a total of  3,510 energy.

The loot rewards are old has been fighting loot items not worth adding to your current piles of junk.

Part Three

Hexed?

Do the Brazil job, "Smuggle a Shipment Through Aeroporto de Belem" 20 times. That's gonna cost you 4,860 energy if you fully mastered District 2.

A small run on Brawler can kill the next two objectives with one stone. Win 15 fights and loot 15 Luggage Bags at the same time. The drop rate of Luggage Bags was great. I probably did some over kill on this one.

The loot reward is another piece of junk called the Box Jellyfish. I don't want or need 1 Box Jellyfish, what do they want me to do with 8?

Part Four

Destruction

Instead of Mission Crew members, we need to ask for Brazil Crew members. This is much easier as we an generate a post for our news feeds. Make sure you have 8 open slots in your Brazil Crew or you won't get credit for clicks past vacant slots. If you don't have enough, fill your current bonus slots.

Click on the "Ask" button and a post for the news feeds will be generated.

While you wait, go to District 1 in Brazil and do the job "Ask an Informant About Local Crime Activity".

You need to loot 12 Documents. The drop rates are pretty good. Make sure you activate your Lockpick bonus to get credit for double the loot. There are no loot rewards for Part Four of this Mission.

Part Five

Get Even

There is a lot to do in Part Five, but it's not as bad as it looks. Start by crafting one item from your Black Market in the Brazil Holdout.

Now kill two birds with one stone by doing a robbing run in Brazil. You need to perform 20 successful robberies and loot 10 Manila  Using Robber BG by Team Spockholm, I was able to get 10 with a little over 1,000 stamina.

The last task requires you to do the job, "Blackmail a Cathedral Representative", located in District 1 of Brazil 25 times. This will cost a total 3,375 energy if you have fully mastered this District.

The loot rewards are a little better but won't be active in my inventory.

Part Six

Public Flogging

Use the same link you used in Part One and ice 3 people in Brazil. I was hoping this was the last part but it doesn't look like it as there is no loot item for a reward.

Part Seven

Hedge Funds

Another two tasks in one with robbing. You need to rob 16 Headquarters in Brazil and loot 1 Bundles of Dynamite. Why they want to keep bringing things back that we don't need remains a mystery. I haven't tried gifting the ones I own to see if it counts but I don't think that will be necessary. By the time you rob the Headquarters, you should have all the dynamite you need.

Now do the job, "Demolish a Rooftop Helipad", in District 4 of Brazil. If you're fully mastered this job costs 594 energy a pop. To complete the task you need to spend 8,910 energy. If you feel the need to get it done fast, it will cheaper to buy it off for 8 Reward Points than it would be to buy energy refills. Once again, there are no loot rewards. Based on the ones in previous parts of this Mission, I don't want any! Zynga can keep their crappy loot.

Part Eight

Shrunken Head Collection

Finally, the last part of this never ending Mission is here. You need to craft two weapons in your Weapons Depot.

Take out 10 Cult Leaders located on your fight list. Each one costs 10 stamina to attack.

Now Zynga is getting a bit crazy. They want us to do the job "Sink a Cargo Ship in Port" which is located in District 5. It cost 729 energy just to do it once and they want us to do it 18 times. That's 13,122 energy! You can try to do in in 6 days or buy it off for 9 Reward Points. So much for saying that the loot you get from these events is free! 

Declare one war. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, you just need to declare the war. You can do this once every 8 hours.

Finish everything and get the Grand Prize of a Great Blue Heron. The stats are great but what a lot of work for one loot item!

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