The riverbank came apart around them, and the panels stayed.
[FLOOR 23 CLEARED]
[EXPERIENCE AWARDED: 50,000]
[TOWER CREDITS AWARDED: 20,000 PER MEMBER]
[JAMES GANNER — LEVEL: 38 → 39]
[EXP: 40,705 / 60,000]
[ALL STATS +1]
[FREE STAT POINTS: 5 → 10]
[FLOOR 24 UNLOCKED]
[MISSION PARAMETERS WILL BE REVEALED UPON ENTRY]
That last line was the whole of it. No preview, no map, no three roads with a red marker on one of them. Just a door and no information about what was behind it.
The transport light set them down in the secure chamber under Dublin Tower with their bodies made whole and their gear exactly as they had left it — Ronan's shield gouged to the boss, Maeve's focus cracked along one edge, Finn's left-hand axe wrapped in wire where the binding had gone, and the whole of James's coat stiff down one side.
The chamber was silent, and after twelve hours of a live feed the silence had a shape to it.
