Adventure Hooks
Roll d66 (two dice, first as tens and second as units, 11 to 66). Thirty-six jobs coming in off the Underground Radio, each one a Score waiting to happen. Take the whole thing or just the spark.
| d66 | Hook |
|---|---|
| 11 | The Vanishing Conductor. A woman calls in shaking: her husband works the Red Line and he just... never came home. She can't say his name on air, it's too dangerous. He walked into a Talos deal by accident and now he's underground, hooked to a machine that eats memories. Find him before there's nothing left to bring home. |
| 12 | Ghost Writers. Writers keep vanishing, and their tags fade off the walls the moment they're gone. Follow the trail through the neighbourhoods, slip the Talos, and dig up the truth before it gets buffed too. |
| 13 | Rockets Red Glare. Fireworks have been banned fifteen years. The radio dares somebody to give Athens its Easter back. Steal the chemicals, raid the impound, chase down a fuse smuggler, haul it all up two hundred floors, and light the sky for two hundred million people. |
| 14 | The Buffed Legend. Talos rolled grey over a dead writer's last piece this morning. The whole sector's in mourning. The Crew has one night to repaint it from memory, bigger and louder, before the primer sets and the moment's gone forever. |
| 15 | Yiayia's Ransom. Somebody's grandmother got scooped in a Vivid rent sweep and shipped to a debt tower in the West. The family can't pay in Cash, only in favours. Tonight the Crew is the favour, and the tower doesn't have a front door. |
| 16 | The Snitch Paint. A batch of suspiciously cheap spray cans is going round that dries into a dye Talos can track from orbit. Half the young writers in the South have already tagged themselves onto a watch list. Find who's cooking it and shut it down before the sweep. |
| 21 | Signal Ghost. At 3am the Underground Radio starts replaying a dead DJ's old shows, word for word, on a frequency that officially doesn't exist. Somebody is broadcasting from inside the sprawl. Follow the signal home and find out who, or what, is still on air. |
| 22 | The Pigeon Post. A racing pigeon drops onto the HQ rail with a memory chip zip-tied to its leg. The chip holds half a map to something Talos buried. The other half is on a second bird nobody has caught yet, and every crew in the city just heard the same rumour. |
| 23 | Broken Deck. A rival crew's youngest kid got their board snapped and their wrist with it by a Talos Dog making an example. The rivals are too proud to ask. Get the deck back, get it fixed, and make sure that Dog reads the crew's colours every time it closes its eyes. |
| 24 | The Vivid Lottery. Vivid is running a "lucky citizen" prize draw. The winners smile for the cameras, walk into the Neo Mall, and are never seen again. The only way to find out where they go is to win it on purpose and follow the red carpet down. |
| 25 | Dead Man's Cans. A legend passed and left a locker of hand-mixed colours nobody alive can replicate. Three crews want it, a collector is bidding, and the locker itself is sitting in a Talos evidence cage. First one there writes the ending. |
| 26 | The Condemned. Vivid slapped a demolition notice on a lived-in South block so they can raise a debt tower. The tenants won't move. The bulldozers roll Monday. Buy the neighbourhood a week the only way the Crew knows how: make the site too loud, too watched, and too embarrassing to touch. |
| 31 | Fireworks in Reverse. Someone is setting off Talos sensor-flares over the sprawl at night, painting fake "riot" alerts across the sky to trigger crackdowns. It's a frame job aimed at the crews. Find the spoofer and turn their own light show into a confession. |
| 32 | The Souvlaki War. Two beloved rival grill carts in the Center have gone to open war, and their followings are about to make it a sector riot. Both owners want the Crew on their side. Neither is telling the whole truth, and one of them is quietly Vivid-owned. |
| 33 | Escort the Radio. The Underground Radio has to move transmitters tonight or go dark for good. That means walking a shopping trolley of illegal broadcast gear across three sectors of patrols without ever losing the signal for more than a minute. The whole city is listening to see if the Crew makes it. |
| 34 | The Talos Amnesty. Talos announces a "clean slate" amnesty: turn in your cans, get your record wiped. Half the older writers are tempted. It's a trap to catalogue every face in the scene. Prove it before the queue outside the precinct gets any longer. |
| 35 | Wrong Wall. A rookie tagged a wall that turned out to be a Talos comms relay disguised as a dead billboard, and the paint shorted something big. Now a whole sector's cameras are down and Talos is tearing the neighbourhood apart to find the artist. Get the kid out and keep the cameras off. |
| 36 | The Collector. A rich recluse up a Vivid tower pays absurd Cash for "authentic street pieces," which he cuts out of walls with a diamond saw and mounts indoors. A famous living wall is next. The Crew is hired to protect it, or to steal it first. Depends who's asking. |
| 41 | Blackout Party. Somebody's throwing an illegal rooftop rave and needs the whole block's power cut at midnight so Vivid's cameras die with the lights. Rig the blackout, run the door, and get everyone off the roof before Talos triangulates two thousand phones in one place. |
| 42 | The Missing Mascot. Vivid's beloved corporate mascot, a giant animatronic owl, has been stolen off the Neo Mall roof by an unknown crew and is being ransomed live on the radio. The city is loving it. Talos is furious. The Crew can get in on the joke, or find out it's cover for something much bigger. |
| 43 | Old Line, New Ghost. A decommissioned metro line under the Center is haunted, or so say the smugglers who use it, who are now too spooked to run the route Athens depends on. Ride the dead tunnels, find out what's really down there, and reopen the road. |
| 44 | The Debt Tower Job. Vivid keeps everyone's debt on one server, ninety floors up a West tower behind Talos guns. Wipe it and a million people walk free tonight. The hard part isn't getting in. It's the two-hundred-metre drop back out with the whole tower awake. |
| 45 | Paint the Talos. A hero-worshipped Talos Captain is doing a public "safety parade" through the Center in full chrome. The radio's whole audience wants to see that spotless armour wearing the Crew's colours by the time it reaches the square. On camera. In front of everyone. |
| 46 | The Kid Who Sees. A twelve-year-old on a beat-up board keeps predicting exactly where Talos will sweep next, hours early, and won't say how. Every crew wants the kid. So does Talos. Get to them first and figure out if it's a gift, a trick, or a leak. |
| 51 | Yellow Dust Rising. Talos officers are turning up bigger, faster, and harder to drop, all buzzing off a shimmering yellow powder from under the Neo Mall. Trace the supply, find the lab, and cut it off before the next patrol the Crew meets can shrug off a whole mag of paint. |
| 52 | The Wedding Crash. A Vivid exec is throwing a rooftop wedding, and the bride's little sister, a writer, calls the radio begging someone to crash it with the biggest, most beautiful piece Athens has ever seen, right as the vows hit. Sneak a crew of taggers into the most secure party in the sector. |
| 53 | Contraband Colour. A shipping container of a banned pigment, a red so bright Talos outlawed it for "public disorder," is sitting misfiled in a customs yard. Every serious writer in the city wants a can. Get in, get the colour out, and decide who's worthy of it. |
| 54 | The Impostor Crew. Somebody is running around in the Crew's colours, tagging Talos property and mugging vendors, burning the reputation the Crew bled for. Find the fakes, out them to the neighbourhood, and take the name back before the whole sector turns cold. |
| 55 | Grandpa Was a Legend. An old man on the radio reveals he was a founding writer back before the ban and hid his crew's masterpiece behind a false wall in a building Vivid is about to gut. Recover it, restore it, and let a forgotten generation take its bow. |
| 56 | The Long Grind. A crew legend once grinded a single rail from the sea all the way to the Acropolis Tower without touching ground, and nobody's matched it since. Tonight the conditions are perfect, the radio is calling the run live, and Talos has learned the route. Beat the record. Beat the sweep. |
| 61 | Feed the Block. A Vivid "logistics error" has left a whole South block without food deliveries for a week while a warehouse two streets over sits full. It's deliberate, a squeeze to force people out. Liberate the warehouse, run the supply line, and don't get caught being generous. |
| 62 | The Sober Talos. One Talos Dog keeps looking the other way, and now the others suspect it. That Dog has been feeding the radio patrol routes for months. If the Crew doesn't get them out of the chrome before internal affairs does, the best source the scene ever had goes into a memory machine. |
| 63 | Museum Piece. The city museum is quietly selling looted street art to Vivid collectors while claiming to "preserve" it. A whole gallery of stolen walls is going to auction. Break in, swap the tags for the artists' names, and livestream the theft they've been calling curation. |
| 64 | The Flood. A storm drain the whole East relies on is about to be sealed by Vivid to cut off a smuggling route, which will also flood four blocks come the first rain. Get down into the drains, stop the seal, and find out what Vivid is so keen to drown down there. |
| 65 | Race the Sun. A rival crew bet they can bomb every rooftop water tank on the Center skyline before sunrise. The Crew took the other side. Now it's a city-wide sprint on wheels, tank to tank, with Talos night patrols as the only referee that matters. |
| 66 | The Whole City Watches. Vivid is unveiling a two-hundred-metre holographic ad tower over the Center at the biggest broadcast of the year. Every screen in Athens will carry it. Hijack the signal, hold it for sixty seconds, and show two hundred million people something real instead. Then survive what comes after. |