The apartment lights snap to sterile blue. Every screen replaces its usual noise with the pending sale, the silver case’s asset signature pulsing beneath a red warning.
The Auction System
Final buyer confirmation is overdue. Authorized claimant, identify the buyer within the remaining transaction window.
The voice comes from the apartment speakers, but the system is already listening through more than microphones. A silent authentication sweep maps Artyom’s voiceprint, weapon profile, and biometric presence.
The Auction System
One response may establish a valid handoff. Each unanswered prompt will reroute additional corporate attention toward this residence.
Outside, distant engines slow beneath the windows. Somewhere behind him, Mara remains unconscious beside the depot’s unlocked hatch, while the trace continues searching for its stolen signal.
Artyom Barseek
The system is authenticating everything I brought inside.
The Auction System
Identify the final buyer now.
✓ Quest Accepted
Get the auction system to accept a falsified buyer confirmation
“I delay the Auction system before using my cyberware Echancements electronics to override the system, stop the beacon location sharing and redirect it to somewhere else.”
SUCCESS (Good Electronics, rolled +1)
Artyom holds his breath and lets the auction system’s prompt hang unanswered. The apartment’s blue light strobes across the silver case while his cybernetic interface opens a concealed electronics workspace.
The Auction System
Response window narrowing. Corporate attention remains assigned to this residence.
His enhanced fingers bridge the apartment terminal and the case’s diagnostic port. He catches the beacon handshake, severs its outgoing location feed, and forces the signal through a fabricated relay.
Artyom Barseek
The beacon is no longer pointing here.
The red warning contracts to a thin amber line. Far beyond the building, the stolen signal begins broadcasting from an industrial address several districts away, clean enough to satisfy the transaction network.
The Auction System
Asset trace redirected. Authorized claimant remains unidentified. Local beacon emissions are suspended.
The override completes, but one of Artyom’s interface needles burns out under the load. His cyberware marks the damaged contact for replacement, while the apartment falls quiet except for rain against the glass.
“I use my father connections name, some called Alisson Garcia and use information about her to complete the buyer confirmation.”
FAILURE (Poor Persuasion, rolled +0)
“I use my father connections name, some called Alisson Garcia and use information about her to complete the buyer confirmation.”
FAILURE (Poor Persuasion, rolled -2)
Artyom Barseek
My father’s connections include Alisson Garcia. Her credentials, transaction history, and family access establish the buyer’s identity.
Artyom routes the name through the damaged interface, attaching fragments of his father’s corporate records and Alisson Garcia’s archived access profile, showing a young adult woman with a slim build, warm brown skin, blunt black bob, and a sharp oval face in a slate corporate jacket to the pending handoff.
The Auction System
Reviewing Alisson Garcia. Corporate relationship data is genuine, but your biometric presence is not hers.
The amber line fractures into competing verification windows. Alisson’s credentials open the buyer file, then lock behind a secondary identity challenge that rejects Artyom’s voiceprint.
The Auction System
Buyer association accepted as historical evidence only. Final confirmation denied. The asset is now flagged for manual adjudication under Alisson Garcia’s account.
The silver case’s red warning returns, but the local beacon remains silent. The terminal ejects a compact audit shard bearing Alisson Garcia’s account signature, turning the failed confirmation into a traceable corporate dispute.
“I use my father connections name, some called Alisson Garcia and use information about her to complete the buyer confirmation and use my Cbernetic Enhancements Electronics to assist me while I forge the buyer confirmation.”
SUCCESS (Good Electronics, rolled +3)
Artyom slots the audit shard into the apartment terminal. Its recovered account signature supplies the missing authorization layer while his cybernetic interface rebuilds Alisson Garcia’s buyer profile around his own forged handoff.
He folds the archived credentials into a valid transaction chain, matching Alisson’s access history, payment authority, and corporate relationship data without disturbing the redirected beacon.
The damaged contact spits a brief spark against his fingertip. Artyom compensates through the remaining interface channels, and the counterfeit biometric bridge settles into the auction system’s verification rhythm.
The Auction System
Buyer identity confirmed. Alisson Garcia is recognized as the authorized claimant.
The silver case’s warning turns green. Ownership transfers under Alisson’s account, and the audit shard records a clean confirmation before ejecting into Artyom’s waiting hand.
The Auction System
Final buyer confirmation accepted. Asset custody is valid under Alisson Garcia’s account.
Quest Complete
Get the auction system to accept a falsified buyer confirmation
Skill Upgrade: Electronics Great→Superb
+ New Item Acquired
Audit Shard