THE HANDOVER

ERRAND
HUNT
THE RADIO OPERATOR
THE MOON
CHAIN LINK

THE HANDOVER is an errand THE RADIO OPERATOR hands out on THE MOON, and it wants THE THIRTEENTH MAN put down.

It is not offered cold: ROGER THAT and NOTHING BUT STATIC have to be handed in first, on this same map and to this same person.

Another man on the same shift never signed off either, and he is still out on the grid walking it and counting. He is not taking the handover from anybody who offers it. Ending his watch is what the errand is; the operator asks for it in the language of the job rather than the language of what it is.

What it asks

SHAPE	WHAT	HOW MANY
HUNT	THE THIRTEENTH MAN	—

ONE BODYTHE THIRTEENTH MAN is a set piece rather than a breed, so the tracker reads a name instead of a tally — there is exactly one of them to find.

THE HANDOVER, an errand in Ada's Trail, on the floor of THE MOON where it is handed out — THE HANDOVER — on THE MOON.

What it pays

Handing it in pays experience, 160 coins and 1 rolled piece.

The experience is authored as a SHARE of your own level bar — 0.7 of one — rather than as a figure, so the same errand is worth the same fraction of a level on the first map and the last. The table below is what that comes to for a hero at the level this venue is tuned for; take it later and it pays more.

The rolled piece goes through the ordinary drop pipeline at your own level, with 2 tiers of skew on the rarity roll — the same skew the merchant's stall takes. A quest is a second CALLER of the loot system, never a second loot system, so what it hands over is the same kind of thing a monster drops.

WHAT	HOW MUCH
COINS	160
ROLLED LOOT	1 (+2 tier skew)

What the share comes to for the hero this venue is tuned for. JESUS keeps the player-relative ladder, so it has no fixed reference level to price against.
DIFFICULTY	HERO LEVEL	XP
EASY	13	1943
MEDIUM	13	1943
HARD	15	3035
NIGHTMARE	44	361869

The chain

Comes after ROGER THAT, NOTHING BUT STATIC.

A chain never crosses a map or a run: the quest log belongs to the run you are in rather than to the hero, so every link of one is taken, done and handed in on a single visit, from the same person.

What is said

The errand in the giver's own words, covered until you ask for it.

HIDE THE CONVERSATION

The ask

THE RADIO OPERATOR
THERE WAS A MAN ON THIS SHIFT WHO NEVER SIGNED OFF EITHER. HE'S STILL OUT ON THE GRID.

THE RADIO OPERATOR
HE ISN'T TAKING THE HANDOVER. SOMEBODY HAS TO END HIS WATCH.

Coming back short

THE RADIO OPERATOR
HE'S STILL WALKING IT. I CAN HEAR HIM COUNTING.

The handover

THE RADIO OPERATOR
THE WATCH IS ENDED. BOTH OF OURS, NEARLY.

THE RADIO OPERATOR
TAKE THIS. IT WAS ISSUED FOR THE FAR-SIDE SHIFT.