One month later, Night City’s civic archive rises through morning smog, all armored glass, municipal scanners, and tired fluorescent light. Selene and Euran enter under their cooperative identities for a routine filing.
At the intake corridor, Tavi Renn intercepts them. Tavi is a lean middle-aged woman with weathered brown skin, close-cropped gray hair, a faded utility coat, and a tremor in one cybernetic hand.
Tavi Renn
Selene Nyx? I need protection, and I need to know whether you still protect people nobody bothered to record.
Tavi produces a sealed maintenance ledger from beneath her coat, keeping it between them without surrendering it. Archive cameras pivot overhead, their lenses quietly tracking the exchange.
Tavi Renn
The bureau’s public accounting is real. The arrests, the hearings, the compensation lists. But it is incomplete. They erased technicians, test subjects, and anyone whose name complicated the story.
Euran Cross
You picked the worst possible place to ask for secrecy. The archive logs everything, and Oversight still watches the doors.
Tavi Renn
Then help me make the remaining victims impossible to erase. I can show you who was missing, if you can keep the bureaucracy from burying them again.
✓ Quest Accepted
Place Tavi's ledger in secure civilian custody
✓ Quest Accepted
Ensure the erased survivors are officially recognized and protected
“We’d have to put them under witness protection and then move them out of here. Is that what they want? Otherwise making them and their stances public to the media is what they will have to settle for. So which is it?”
SUCCESS (Good Persuasion, rolled +0)
Selene Nyx
Then we put them under witness protection and move them out of here. Is that what they want? Otherwise, public disclosure is what they get. Which is it?
Tavi Renn
Protection and relocation. Every one of them who can still answer me chose safety over becoming a headline. The others deserve that choice too.
Tavi’s cybernetic hand steadies against the ledger. She unlocks its seal and turns the first pages toward Selene, revealing names, transit histories, and contact protocols.
Euran Cross
Then we build the protection list first. Public exposure stays available, but nobody gets forced into the spotlight because the archive wants a cleaner story.
Tavi Renn
Agreed. I have safe contacts outside the civic network, but I need someone who can move people without advertising the route. After that, we release the record.
The intake cameras continue recording, but Tavi no longer shields the ledger. Its buried names and evidence are now openly placed before Selene and Euran, ready for protection and eventual publication.
Euran Cross
We’ll move the people who choose safety, then make the ones who choose publicity impossible to erase. No more deciding for them.