The rear security door slams its final inches shut, metal whining under pressure. Green server lights flicker steady over the warehouse, and the scrubbed augment goes dark in Zara Mensk’s hands.
The Courier
Hatch. Now. Before Matsuda cuts the front.
The Dealer
If they find the crate, I am finished.
The Courier kneels at a seam in the floor, fingers already finding the hidden latch. Through the main bay wall, distant impacts thud closer, measured and heavy.
Alexandra Voss
Visual confirmed. Open the hatch and place the asset where I can see it.
Zara Mensk
The main door is the worse way out.
The Dealer backs toward the shadows, hands up, while the Courier yanks the maintenance hatch free. Cold air breathes up from below, carrying rust, dust, and the promise of a narrow escape.
✓ Quest Accepted
Slip into the maintenance tunnels
✓ Quest Accepted
Avoid detection by Matsuda
“Grab the crate and follow the Courier into the dark tunnel.”
SUCCESS (Fair Athletics, rolled +1)
Zara hooks the crate by its edge and moves with the Courier, the weight jerking once in her arms before settling. The hatch swallows them both in a rush of cold, oily air.
The Courier
Down. Keep low.
Zara drops into the maintenance tunnel behind them, boots skidding on wet steel grating. Above, the warehouse floor hatch hangs open like a black wound.
The Dealer
I am not staying for this.
The Dealer vanishes back toward the crates as distant boots hammer across the far side of the warehouse. The rear security door groans harder, metal shrieking against its frame.
The Courier
Move. If Voss gets eyes on this shaft, we are done.
Cold tunnel dark closes around Zara and the crate, while the opening above narrows to a thin square of warehouse light and rising alarm.
Quest Complete
Slip into the maintenance tunnels
Quest Complete
Avoid detection by Matsuda