The matte-black drone roars as it descends, its spotlight blinding Kaine as he clings to the rusted rebar. A woman in a jagged, chrome-plated exosuit drops from the drone’s underbelly, her boots denting the rooftop grating with a heavy, magnetic thud. She aims a compact railgun directly at Kaine’s head.
Zaya
You were always a sloppy scavenger, Kaine. That data belongs to the Syndicate now.
Cafari Kaine
She knows my name. The turret is tracking the drone's heat, not me. If I jump now, I might survive the fall.
Cafari Kaine
You're welcome to the scraps, Zaya. The turret has a lock on that drone, not me.
Zaya
Let it try. This chassis is rated for more thermal output than this rotting pile can dish out. Don't move.
Zaya
The brat is bluffing, but the turrets are spinning up. I need the key before the drone's grapples seal the extraction.
+ Story Quest Added
Escape the rooftop before the drone grapples seal
“Go after the key”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled +3)
Kaine lunges, his muscles coiled like springs. He leaves the grating in a blur of motion, diving off the edge of the factory rooftop just as the plasma turret cycles.
Cafari Kaine
The wind screams. Gravity is the only law that matters out here.
He extends his arm, fingers snapping shut over the cold, vibrating metal of the data key while it drifts in the void. He twists his body mid-air, slamming his heels against the side of the factory wall to arrest his momentum. He finds purchase on a rusted ventilation duct, his fingers digging into the seam as the railgun fires, vaporizing the rebar where he stood a second before.
Zaya
You insane rat. That fall would have turned you to paste!
Zaya looms over the ledge, her railgun smoking, her eyes scanning the abyss for his body. Kaine hangs ten stories above the neon-slicked streets, the key pulsing with hot, decrypted data in his white-knuckled grip.
Quest Complete
Escape the rooftop before the drone grapples seal
+ New Item Acquired
data key
+ Scene Quest Added
Scale the ventilation shaft and escape Zaya's pursuit