The lab door hisses shut behind Daro. White light glints off overturned stools, shattered glass, and warning strobes. In the center, Kragore braces a humming experimental weapon in both chrome hands, his shoulders shaking with effort.
The weapon’s whine climbs higher, and Daro feels it buzzing through the living gold of his suit and cape. Somewhere in the ceiling, automated defenses wake up with a cold mechanical click.
Kragore
Daro, stop there. I need ten more seconds, maybe less.
Red bars flash over the sealed exits. A turret pivots from the wall, then another, both tracking the two bonded orcs like they are a single threat.
Kragore
No, no, not now. It’s spiking faster than I planned.
Kragore shifts his grip, trying to steady the device, but the casing spits blue sparks across the lab floor.
Kragore
If you can hold the doors or take the weapon from me, do it now. Otherwise we both get cooked in here.
✓ Quest Accepted
Hold the blast doors
“I lunge forward and hold the blast doors open with my super strength”
SUCCESS (Legendary Strength, rolled +3)
Daro lunges to the blast doors and catches them before they can slam. The metal shudders in his hands, then stops, pinned wide by raw strength.
The weapon’s pitch drops a fraction. Its blue sparks spit harmlessly against the floor instead of racing into the chamber.
Kragore
Yes. That, keep that. I’ve got a read on it now.
A panel on the weapon flickers open under Kragore’s chrome thumb, and a tiny holo-readout blooms in the air, exposing a pulsing lattice inside.
Kragore
It’s not failing, it’s trying to handshake with something in the walls...
One turret swivels away from Daro and locks onto the ceiling, its barrel twitching toward the vented conduit above.
Kragore
Daro, it’s found a target. Tell me now, hold the doors or come help me kill this signal?
Quest Complete
Hold the blast doors