The stadium lights hum, falter, and plunge the directors’ box entrance into a flickering amber haze. Shadows jump across the secured corridor.
The Dark-Coated Figure turns sharply. Behind a service panel, a maintenance hatch gapes open, its edges revealed by the failing light.
The Dark-Coated Figure
You were never meant to see the folder. Keep my name out of this, and you may yet walk away clean.
They slip through the hatch and pull it inward. The panel settles almost flush, leaving only a thin black seam.
The Match Steward
Stay here. Do not touch that file. I am getting the corridor secured.
The Match Steward and The Tunnel Steward hurry toward the stuttering lights, calling for order as the tunnel gate remains shut behind them. Benjamin Šeško is left beside the open incident folder, his name printed beside the blank signature line.
✓ Quest Accepted
Confront the Dark-Coated Figure
“I grab the folder to see what evidence they left behind.”
FAILURE (Fair Perception, rolled -2)
Benjamin Šeško reaches for the folder before the loose pages can slide from the side table.
But the folder catches on a metal corner. Its contents fan across the tabletop and floor, denying him a clear view of the evidence.
A carbon copy skitters toward the nearly concealed hatch. Benjamin Šeško catches its edge, but the paper tears beneath his fingers.
The larger half vanishes into the maintenance passage. The surviving strip bears a blue stamp: SERVICE ACCESS, EAST STAND.
The blank signature line remains visible on the torn authorization sheet, but the names and details beneath it are scattered beyond immediate reading.
The Match Steward
What happened? Step away from the papers and tell me what you found.
From beyond the shut gate, the Tunnel Steward calls that the corridor is clear. The maintenance hatch offers no further movement, while the stamped strip points toward the East Stand.
+ New Item Acquired
East Stand service strip
“Oh God I am cooked, but let me just, get this glue, and paper bits and use my perception to figure out what it says”
SUCCESS (Fair Perception, rolled +0)
Benjamin Šeško presses the torn edges flat and works glue beneath the scattered paper fibres, matching ink lines across the joins.
The adhesive leaves his fingertips tacky, and a sharp scrape from the table carries through the amber-lit entrance.
Therefore, the Match Steward steps back into view, one hand raised toward the shut gate, watching the reconstruction instead of the hatch.
The Match Steward
Slowly. Keep the sheet where I can see it.
The fragments align. Beneath the blank signature line, the recovered text reads: EAST STAND, SERVICE CORRIDOR, BAY 4. Visitor access approved for 21:40.
The torn carbon copy confirms the same destination, but its missing half has taken the authorization number with it.
The Match Steward
Bay 4 is the trail. If that person reached the East Stand, we have minutes, not answers. Are you coming, or are you handing me the papers?
✓ Quest Accepted
Reach Bay 4
“I'll just speedrun it, I mean, I do run 35km/h top”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled +0)