Voss’s dead console fractures into dozens of emergency channels. Witness files stream across the command hub while red routes flare through the tactical overlay, marking cleanup assets converging on exposed survivors.
Euran stands beside Selene in his fitted armor, upgraded hand steady around his weapon. Mara and the courier remain behind at the shop, guarding the evidence and the sealed lane.
Euran Cross
Those routes are moving fast. If they reach the witnesses before the files lock, everything Voss buried can disappear with them.
The hub answers with cascading alarms. A narrow protection window opens across the central lattice, demanding simultaneous authorization from the dead command network and an authenticated field node.
Euran Cross
I can hold the chamber and watch the approach. Tell me what the protocol needs, and I will keep anyone off you while you make it permanent.
Three channels flash amber: an underground clinic, a freight safehouse, and a mobile archive convoy. Each carries witness telemetry, while hostile signals close from separate corridors.
Euran Cross
We have one chance, Selene. Which fire do we put out first?
✓ Quest Accepted
Shield the exposed witnesses behind a protection protocol
“*I line up the protocols for him and start to work on protecting the witness and try to find and cancel the hits put out to the assassins. Then I find a way to protect all witnesses.*”
SUCCESS (Legendary Hacking, rolled +0)
Selene slots the signal ghost into the central lattice and aligns the clinic, freight safehouse, and archive convoy protocols. Amber channels synchronize beneath her hands.
The command network unfolds its assassination orders, revealing every active hit, handler route, and biometric target. Selene severs the orders at their authorization roots.
Euran Cross
The hostile signals just dropped. Are the witnesses clear?
She redirects the cancelled orders into sealed dead channels, then wraps all witness telemetry in a rotating protection lattice. Clinic doors lock to trusted medics, the freight safehouse vanishes from public routing, and the convoy receives phantom escorts.
One final command propagates through the exposed network. Every witness file receives a permanent extraction priority, redundant identity protection, and automatic alerts for any renewed targeting attempt.
Euran Cross
All three channels are green. The hits are gone, and every witness is under protection. You did it, Selene.
Across the fractured console, hostile routes extinguish one by one. The command hub falls from emergency red to steady blue, while the protected witnesses disappear into systems Voss can no longer control.
Quest Complete
Shield the exposed witnesses behind a protection protocol