The salt spray of the North Sea batters the bridge windows of the freighter. Onyx Soldier stands in the threshold, his white eyes cutting through the gloom of the command deck.
Sleeper Agent Activated
The signal was supposed to be silent. Why is he here.
Sleeper Agent Activated
You are late, brother. Or perhaps you are simply the wrong man for the cleanup.
Onyx Soldier
The navigation console has been rewired with non-standard encryption cables.
Sleeper Agent Activated pulls a compact detonator from his tactical vest, his thumb hovering over the safety latch.
Sleeper Agent Activated
Walk away, Onyx Soldier. If I press this, the cargo bay becomes a crater, and neither of us leaves this ship alive.
+ Story Quest Added
Escape the freighter
+ Scene Quest Added
Stop the detonator
“I feign surrender and close in”
SUCCESS (Superb Hand-to-Hand, rolled -1)
Onyx Soldier
The trigger is set to a hair-trigger tension, but his grip is shaking.
Onyx Soldier
You win. I am leaving. Just keep your finger steady.
Onyx Soldier raises his hands in a gesture of total surrender, his movements slow and deliberate as he steps toward the console.
Sleeper Agent Activated
Step back! I mean it, one more inch and I turn us both to ash.
The agent sneers, his confidence growing as Onyx Soldier continues his advance. In a blur of movement, Onyx Soldier lunges, his hand clamping over the agent's wrist with crushing force.
The detonator clatters to the deck plates, harmless and inactive, while a hidden override key falls from the agent's sleeve, sliding toward the captain's chair.
Quest Complete
Stop the detonator