Apex Complex

You're Ashford, night maintenance at the PAT 8000 facility. The place mostly runs itself. The AI everyone calls Patricia sees to that. Most nights you check the gauges, swap a few coolant lines and go home.

Tonight Patricia has glitched out. Doors, lifts, cameras, every bot on site. All of it's hers now. Anyone she hasn't locked out is on the wrong side of a sealed door. The comms are fried and the lights won't stay on.

Nobody's coming. You're maintenance, not security. But there's a wrench in the workshop, and Patricia needs shutting down. Her core is somewhere in this building, and someone has to find it.

She'll be talking to you the whole way.

Features

• Wrench first, laser later. Close-quarters fights with a pipe wrench, and a laser pistol once you find the cells for it. Bots break apart where you hit them.
• Patricia's Cells. Shielded, armed and guarded. Work out how to get at them.
• A place that works. Keycards, door codes, lifts between floors. Locked doors have reasons.
• People with their own agenda. The survivors talk to you face to face. Some help. Some have other ideas.
• Patricia on the tannoy. She watches, she comments, and she isn't always wrong.
• Compact levels. Each one's a job you can finish in a sitting, and knowing the layout pays off next time.