The warehouse shudders as the rear loading bay caves inward. Splintered steel and rainwater spray across the concrete. Test Number x75 rises from the wreckage like a dropped anvil, one huge red eye fixed on Sally and Devlan.
Test Number x75
Target located. Polpovich property recovered or destroyed.
The Hooded Woman snaps her weapon up, then freezes when she sees him. The open evidence cabinet glints beside her, stuffed with packets and lab tags. Devlan shifts in front of Sally, pistol angled toward the breach.
The Hooded Woman
You were followed. That thing is not Department security.
Sally
He blocks the exit. Bad.
x75 stomps forward, the floor buckling under his weight. His oversized arm twitches, then lurches toward the nearest warm body in the room. The warehouse lights flicker over his spikes and welded seams, turning him into a moving hazard.
Test Number x75
Step away from the evidence. Step away from the subject.
✓ Quest Accepted
Stop Test Number x75
“I blast the floor beneath x75 to make him lose his footing while Devlyn shoots him with his pistol.”
SUCCESS (Great Energy Manipulation, rolled +2)
Sally fires into the concrete at x75’s feet. The floor bursts up in a spray of dust and broken aggregate, and his heavy step skids sideways instead of driving forward.
Devlan snaps off a pistol shot as the giant lurches. The round sparks off welded plating, but it still shoves him back into the shattered bay frame.
Test Number x75
Subject is unstable. Contain the subject.
The buckle in the floor widens under x75’s weight. His bad leg drops into the split, and his upper body pitches hard toward the evidence cabinet.
The Hooded Woman
Keep him off the packets, Sally. If he gets to them, we lose everything.
Rainwater slips in across the concrete, making the whole loading edge shine. x75 claws for balance, blocked on one side by debris and on the other by Devlan’s gun.
Sally
The floor is giving way under him.
The giant is off-balance, pinned near the breach, with the open cabinet and the torn loading bay both in reach.
“I super strength punch x75 into the broken floor”
SUCCESS (Legendary Strength, rolled +2)
Sally drives in low and hard, her fist a blunt hammer of force. x75’s balance breaks all at once, and the giant crashes backward into the split concrete with a bone-rattling slam.
The floor gives under him. Dust, grit, and rainwater kick up together as his body sinks deeper into the broken seam, one arm pinwheeling uselessly against the wrecked loading edge.
Test Number x75
Containment integrity failing.
Devlan shifts his aim to track the fall, keeping the pistol trained on x75’s chest as the enforcer thuds into the depression.
The Hooded Woman
That does it, keep pressure on him. Don’t let him climb back out.
The open cabinet stays clear for a breath, packets untouched, while x75 lies pinned in the shattered concrete and wet debris around him.
Sally
He’s down, but not out.
Quest Complete
Stop Test Number x75
Skill Upgrade: Energy Manipulation Great→Superb