The Vulture bucks hard between black towers, and the side hatch screams on its damaged rails. Outside, a NeuroSync interceptor slides into view, nose light flaring through rain and smog.
Ocram
Hold on. I am cutting left, now.
The transport whips sideways. Kay catches the frame as sparks spit past his boots. Taled braces at the hatch, weapon up, tracking the interceptor’s turn.
Yma
Their lock is still on us. I can kill the tag if I get ten seconds.
A burst of tracer fire stitches the hull. The cabin shudders. For one breath, the city opens below them, a canyon of neon and blind concrete.
Kay
The interceptor is matching speed.
Taled
Kay, if you can hit their cockpit, do it now.
Ocram yanks the Vulture under a skybridge. The interceptor clips the concrete edge, loses alignment, and the opening widens just enough for the crew to break the chase.
✓ Quest Accepted
Break the interceptor pursuit
✓ Quest Accepted
Escape the city blockade
“Ocram presses a button and launches a napalm missile at the interceptor.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Firearms, rolled +0)
The Vulture’s launch tube kicks. Ocram slams the fire command, and a napalm missile punches out under the hull with a white-hot roar.
It streaks past Kay’s hatch view, leaving a burning thread through rain and smog, then drives straight into the interceptor’s nose.
The impact blooms into orange fire across the cockpit glass. The interceptor jerks, its lights strobing wild, and it falls out of line.
Ocram
That’s it, keep it burning off our tail!
Taled
Hit hard, then move. Don’t let it stabilize.
Yma stays hunched over the open panel, eyes on the signal readout as the lock trace stutters under the blast glare.
Behind them, the damaged hatch shivers in its rails while the interceptor drops into the neon fog, smoking and blind.
Quest Complete
Break the interceptor pursuit