The auditorium’s giant wall display still glows with serum trial data, and the room has not decided what to believe. Abby Stone stands at the center of it all while Arthur Blues scrolls through live reaction metrics, his hands moving too fast. Victoria holds the reinforced entrance, watching the crowd and the exits.
Arthur Blues
The first wave is splitting. Support is higher than the critics thought, but the phrase they keep repeating is, proving long-term safety.
A new alert blooms across Arthur’s interface, then another. The audience’s whispers sharpen into a single concern, not about power, but about proof.
Victoria
They want a live confirmation. If we give them one more clean metric, they stop circling.
Abby Stone
The data is not enough unless it looks immediate.
A spotlight on the side dais auto-tracks to Abby, framing her against the display. The room is waiting for her serum to be presented as present tense truth, not old footage.
Arthur Blues
Say the word, and I push the active dosage readout to the front. If it holds, they see perfection in real time.
“It sounds like the investors want to physically see the results are safe. Can we possibly track down a previous buyer sho uses the product and have them be used as evidence it works long term?”
SUCCESS (Great Computers, rolled +0)
Arthur’s console spits up a buyer history, then freezes on one profile marked active for eighteen months. A compliance badge beside it flickers red, and the access trail points back into the lab network.
Abby Stone
The buyer record is clean. The badge is not.
Victoria shifts at the entrance as Arthur enlarges the log. A hidden session has been riding their own credentials, silent and recent.
Arthur Blues
That is not external traffic. Someone inside our system touched the buyer archive.
The long-term user file remains open on the display, ready to be used, but the unauthorized path is now impossible to ignore.
Victoria
Do we lock the network down now, or keep the proof feed live?
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure the buyer record evidence
“Victoria, i need you to upload inti the system and remove all unauthorized users, now!”
SUCCESS (Superb Hacking, rolled +0)
Abby Stone
Victoria, upload into the system and remove every unauthorized user. Now.
Arthur’s console pings once, then yields. The buyer archive slides into a locked admin view as Victoria’s security signature takes root across the network.
Red access markers flare, then peel away from the wall display in clean strips. The hidden session collapses under her overwrite.
Victoria
Unauthorized credentials isolated. Internal route severed.
The proof feed stays live beside the cleaned record, but the intrusion map is gone. Arthur looks up from the console, waiting for the next order.
Arthur Blues
The archive is sealed. Do you want me to keep the buyer record onscreen, or pull it before anyone starts asking questions?
Quest Complete
Secure the buyer record evidence
“Keep the records open amd track down our longest and most frequent buyer”
SUCCESS (Superb Hacking, rolled -2)
Arthur keeps the archive open and runs the buyer list against frequency tags. A private channel lights up inside the cleaned record, buried under routine purchase metadata.
Abby’s override pulls the hidden entries into view. The longest-running buyer is not a stranger, it is an internal lab access route tied to their own network.
The route resolves into a repeated pattern of timed logins, always after hours, always from within the facility spine. The display marks the account as authorized on paper, unauthorized in practice.
Arthur Blues
That credential should not exist in the buyer archive.
Arthur stiffens at the console, then starts isolating the account instead of the whole system. The proof feed stays live, but one of the clean lines on the wall now carries a name attached to the breach.
Victoria
Internal access confirmed. I can pin the route, if you want the source named.
The audience noise stays distant, but the room feels tighter now. Abby gets the record she asked for, and the system pays for it with a loud diagnostic chirp that turns a few heads in the front rows.
✓ Quest Accepted
Name the source of the unauthorized buyer archive access
“Find whoever that is and get them here. If they frequently use the serum then thay can be used as oroof of it's safety”
SUCCESS (Superb Hacking, rolled -2)
Arthur’s filter snaps to the source, and the hidden route stops being a line of metadata. It resolves into a person, seated in the facility spine and logged through a legacy maintenance node.
A name tags onto the account at last, and the auditorium screen auto-branches a location ping. The console beeps once, then starts building an internal path to the nearest service elevator.
Arthur Blues
I have them. It is Maren Vale, floor three service wing.
Arthur keys the trace to the overhead map, and a second panel opens at the edge of the display, showing a moving dot and a corridor route.
Victoria
I can bring her in. Quietly, if you want clean hands.
The audience hears only the chirp and sees the map flare blue. Abby gets the name, but the trace burns one more access token from the archive as the system locks the route in place.
Abby Stone
Maren Vale. Floor three service wing.
Quest Complete
Name the source of the unauthorized buyer archive access