Anna
The encryption keys are holding, but the lift motor is dead! Max, dump your power cell into the relay behind the maintenance panel now!
Anna
If we lose this data, the sacrifice of the research team was for nothing. If we don't move, we're all dead anyway.
Rent
Stop talking and push, Max! The Dirge are crawling over the ceiling panels—they’re right above us!
Rent pivots, his kinetic rifle cycling through a high-velocity burst that shreds the incoming shadows, while the corridor floor shudders violently under a seismic shift.
Max
I'm on it. Anna, keep the interface stable while I bridge the connection!
Max
The drive is burning my palm, but the weight of it feels like the only thing keeping us grounded in this collapsing nightmare.
Max slams his palm against the exposed wiring of the relay, his cybernetic limb sparking as it overrides the dead motor with a forced surge of raw voltage.
+ Scene Quest Added
Bridge the connection to the lift relay
“Power the lift and escape using cybernetics and machine operation”
SUCCESS (Superb Cybernetics, rolled -1)
The relay shrieks as the cybernetic feedback loops into the circuitry. Blue-white arcing electricity dances across Max’s forearm, biting into his skin as he forces the manual override to bypass the charred junction. The heavy lift bay door groans, vibrating against its track with a sound like grinding teeth.
Winona
The power is spiking! If the lift doesn't clear the floor, we're going to be crushed when the building shifts again!
Max
I've got the relay locked. Everyone inside, now!
Max
The override is holding, but the internal servos in the lift are screaming. I need to keep the connection live, or we’re trapped in this tomb for good.
The lift cage shuddered into motion, its rusted cables pulling taut. Above, the ceiling buckled downward, shedding twisted metal and pulverized rock as a Dirge chittered, its long, bladed limbs puncturing the plating directly over the threshold. Rent roared, stepping into the path of the encroaching monster to provide cover.
Quest Complete
Bridge the connection to the lift relay