Regina King kicks the west-side office door wider and fills the frame with wet pavement light behind her. The room is cold, tight, and stacked with schedules, seals, and a locked ledger on the desk.
The Office Controller
He stops reaching for the ledger and studies her like a problem that just walked upstairs.
The Office Controller’s hand hovers over the brass clasp. He knows the downstairs man failed, and the contract stack in front of him looks less like paperwork and more like a barricade.
Regina King
The ledger is the key to the block.
The Office Controller
You are not supposed to be here. Those forms are not for you to touch.
Regina steps in, shoulders square, boxing gloves dark against the warm office glow. The desk, the seals, and the ledger sit between her and the path he keeps closed.
The Office Controller
If you want the sanctioned card, you need the keys, the contracts, and my approval. Without them, you fight nowhere.
✓ Quest Accepted
Get the keys, contracts, and approval
“Then give them to me before i knock you out and take them. You're not incharge here. I am!”
SUCCESS (Superb Willpower, rolled -1)
Regina King
Then give them to me before I knock you out and take them. You are not in charge here. I am.
The words land heavy in the cramped office. The Office Controller’s face tightens, and his hand pulls back from the ledger clasp.
The Office Controller
...You are not bluffing.
He reaches down, not for the desk phone, but for the top folder in the stack. The legal seals, the venue packet, and the keys case all sit within Regina’s reach now.
Office Man
He controls the schedule, the contracts, and the keys. I only process what he approves.
The Office Controller turns his head toward the stairwell, jaw working, and the sharp footstep outside stops again at the landing.
The Office Controller
If you want the real answer, it is upstairs. West side end office. That is where he keeps the clearance.
He slides the top folder forward with two fingers, exposing the brass keys case beside it and the name on the paperwork beneath. The pressure in the room shifts from denial to forced admission.
“She takes what she came for the continues forward to take on the next big boss”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled +0)
Regina moves in a single clean step, takes the folder, and hooks the brass keys case with her free hand.
The Office Controller jerks forward, but stops when she is already backing out with the papers.
The Office Controller
He cannot let her leave with all of it.
Office Man looks from the broken doorway to the desk, then to Regina, as if choosing the safer truth.
Office Man
That upstairs office has the real clearance. If you want the name, that is where it sits.
Regina keeps the keys, the contracts, and the venue packet, turning toward the hall with the check and paperwork secured in hand.
Behind her, the desk phone stays within reach, the stairwell falls quiet again, and the West-side end office waits above the gym like a locked jaw.
Quest Complete
Get the keys, contracts, and approval
Attribute Upgrade: Willpower Superb→Legendary
+ New Item Acquired
Folder
+ New Item Acquired
Brass keys case