Route: Espionage

Principal Scientist Maya Martinez requests the party to help her get out with company secrets instead of helping catch the Synthisaurus Rex. This involves sneaking into the DNA storage to steal samples out from under Chief Officer Ryan Nguyen's nose and escaping on a ship with Maya.

Structure

Exposition

Maya explains to the party that corporate espionage and competition is common, and that she feels that it's only a matter of time before the station is totally compromised. These attacks have been growing more common and more bold—if there were casualties this time, how many will there be next time?

Help me get something to leverage. It's technology I designed anyway. I'll get you a ship if you get me the DNA, and we can leave together.

— Maya

In order to complete this quest you need:

A security chit for the gene labs

Backup of the dna archives from the labs

This will take you to Vandimir's office and then down to the labs.

Conflict

This route pits you directly against the interests of the other three quest givers. If you are not careful during this quest you will arouse their ire, and each may react in different ways.
Chief Officer Ryan Nguyen is the one most suspicious of you and the most likely to catch you. He watches the cameras fairly closely, so any time you make any actions in Maya's favor while near a camera, the Narrator rolls to see if he notices or not. If he does notice, he will inform the rest and deploy a security detail to you. If you beat the security detail, he will attend to you personally (boss fight).
Doctor Shirley De'Agusta is very trusting. If she catches you stealing corporate secrets she can be talked into helping and escaping with you, otherwise will attack you and flee, calling Ryan if you do not subdue her. If you let her get away, she will return later, armed, to try to take you out.
Director Constantijn Vandimir will not suspect you at first, but if you go into his office there's a chance he will catch you. Once he knows you have betrayed him he may go out of his way to search for you, though only has a slim chance to find you if Ryan doesn't help you. Out of the three he is the hardest fight, and will most likely ambush you in loud spaces such as the Central Divider so as to have the combat advantage on you.

Rising Action

The rising action is falling out of sight of the security cameras so that you can loop around and get to the main office. She will warn you that you'll need to throw them off the trail and should probably travel through the blind sections of the ship—those spaces where power was knocked out by the impact. It's unsafe due to ship damage, but you wont be seen at least.

Climax

The climax is down in the hangar of the ship. No matter what route you have taken until now, the finale will reveal your position and security teams will attack. You can either face them directly or set up defenses to hold them back and trick them out of getting in, or hack the ship to lock them out.

Resolution

The resolution is that the crew escapes but all logs of their influence is wiped out. The information is sold to their competition and Maya shares it with the party before she brings the ship to land planetside.
Onto the next adventure...

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Parent Plot

Module: Breakout at Abominable Labs