Freight access breathes cold air and machine ozone. The drone hangs a little too high, its stabilizers ticking against each other in a jittery, embarrassed rhythm.
The Dock Tech
If you can tame that loop, I can get you a clean passage. No drama, just a door and a route.
Syn steps in close, multi-tool ready, as the Dock Tech turns the diagnostic port toward her with careful hands.
The Dock Tech
Quietly, please. It only needs a steady touch and someone who knows what the numbers are trying to say.
The drone’s wobble evens out a fraction as Syn works. A tiny status light changes from angry amber to a calmer blue-green.
The Dock Tech
There. That is the first time all shift it has looked embarrassed instead of haunted.
The Dock Tech lets out a slow breath, shoulders lowering now that the machine holds steady. The corridor feels less like a choke point and more like a back room where people actually talk.
✓ Quest Accepted
Tame the drone's calibration
“Syn connects with her device and begins to go through the calibration sequences, scanning as well for any glitches or errors to correct.”
SUCCESS (Superb Engineering, rolled +1)
Syn slips her scanner lead into the open port and the drone answers with a cleaner tone. The jitter in its hover tightens into a controlled drift.
Syn
The loop is readable now.
She runs the calibration sequence again, and the drone’s blue-green indicator holds steady instead of fluttering.
The Dock Tech
That is better. The error pattern is finally flattening out.
On Syn’s scanner, the glitch source resolves into a mismatched timing table, not a dead component. A simple sync fault, ugly but fixable.
The Dock Tech
We have been chasing a ghost in the numbers. You found the actual bite mark.
The drone steadies into a quiet, obedient hover. Far deeper in the tunnels, a metallic clank echoes once, then fades.
The Dock Tech
If you want, I can open the passage now. Or do you want one more look at the logs?
Quest Complete
Tame the drone's calibration