Before the route can bend toward Orin Vale’s laboratory, a small adult woman steps from a maintenance alcove. Vivid pink hair spills beneath dark sunglasses, and a gum packet bulges in her relaxed hand.
Rodney
Easy. I was paid to locate you, not kill you. Rodney Sherman. The shard is more interesting than your weapon.
She chews slowly, green eyes hidden behind dark lenses, studying the authentication shard in Jostan’s palm rather than the Jimmy integrated beneath his cybernetics. Behind him, the service corridor hums toward Leonidas.
Rodney
Let me inspect it, and I can get you inside through a route faster than Orin’s return path. No checkpoint, no archive alarm, no audience.
Rodney angles aside, revealing a narrow transit hatch behind her. Its access light flickers green, though a second signal pulses red beneath the panel, suggesting someone else may be watching the route.
Rodney
You can keep holding it and wonder who hired me, or hand it over for ten seconds. Your choice, Jostan. I am not in a hurry.
✓ Quest Accepted
Get past the pink-haired woman
“As I pass the women I say to her, you remind me of someone I used to know, laugh at her face and shoot a up at a chain to break and have it fall down, I scurry away adn make my way to orin”
FAILURE (Superb Firearms, rolled +0)
Jostan Ordomo
You remind me of someone I used to know.
Jostan laughs at Rodney’s face and moves past her. He raises the Jimmy toward the ceiling, searching for a chain to sever, but the passage offers only bare conduits and sealed plating.
The shot cracks through the corridor and misses its intended target. It clips the transit hatch’s access housing instead, showering the panel with sparks and forcing its green light dark.
Rodney
That was not a chain, darling. But you did find the manual bypass.
The damaged housing peels back, exposing a physical release stud beneath the circuitry. A narrow route marker flickers on the panel, pointing toward Orin Vale’s laboratory.
Jostan scurries onward before the hatch can recover, the shard secured and the Jimmy ready. Rodney remains behind him, chewing calmly as the passage swallows his retreat.
Rodney
Run to your old man, Jostan. I will collect my answer when you are less busy escaping.
Reach Orin Vale’s laboratory
Quest Complete
Get past the pink-haired woman