The vault terminal flashes with independent publication alerts. Across Night City, public screens replace advertisements with fragments of Voss’s orders, signed kill-zone authorizations, and Cross’s expendability designation.
The sealed vault door unlocks under an external emergency override. Selene and Mara step into the command-node access concourse as warning lights pulse across polished concrete and exposed fiber.
the do-gooder reporter
Selene, listen carefully. Someone hijacked the publication stream. They are tagging every surviving witness in the broadcast metadata.
Public screens flicker through faces, credential fragments, and location grids. One map highlights the east-side safehouse where Euran is waiting, while another marks Mara’s former command routes.
Mara Quell
They are not trying to bury Voss anymore. They are using the disclosure to flush everyone connected to his operation.
the do-gooder reporter
Euran Cross is identified as a surviving witness. His safehouse is already under passive surveillance, and the net is tightening.
The concourse doors slam shut behind them. Far above, Night City’s screens continue broadcasting Voss’s crimes while the same signal quietly hunts Euran, Mara, and every remaining witness.
✓ Quest Accepted
Warn Euran about the hijacked disclosure broadcast
✓ Quest Accepted
Move Euran to safety from the disclosure hunt
“*I contact Euran via severe com-link and warn him. Then let him know I’m coming for him and to stay safe and only respond if I give him code word Tease.*”
SUCCESS (Legendary Hacking, rolled +1)
Selene slips behind a fiber junction and opens a severe com-link, routing it through dead municipal nodes. The channel authenticates to Euran Cross’s safehouse without exposing her position.
Selene Nyx
Euran, the disclosure stream was hijacked. They are tagging surviving witnesses, and your safehouse is under surveillance. Stay inside and stay safe.
Selene Nyx
I’m coming for you. Do not respond to anyone unless I give you the code word: Tease.
The com-link compresses her voice into a narrow encrypted burst. Public broadcast noise rolls over the channel, but the warning reaches the safehouse cleanly.
Euran Cross
Understood. I stay put, keep quiet, and answer only to Tease. I’ll know it’s you.
A passive-surveillance ping brushes the channel and vanishes against Selene’s routed decoy. Euran Cross’s connection remains silent afterward, exactly as instructed, while his safehouse marker stays active.
Quest Complete
Warn Euran about the hijacked disclosure broadcast