"Setting the trap!" the second agent shouted, deploying a . As the vampires rushed in, they were hoisted into the air, twitching as thousands of volts cooked them from the inside out. Jesse didn't miss a beat; he activated his Quake ability, slamming the ground so hard the shockwave turned the remaining swarm into red mist.
In a flash of blue light, another agent—a specialist from the East Coast branch—slammed into the dirt next to him, dual-wielding electrified short-axes.
The Gauntlet hummed, a lonely spark in a world of monsters, as they headed back into the dark. EVIL WEST ONLINE(2022)
"They're coming out of the mines, Jesse," Edgar muttered, checking the cylinder of his revolver. "The high-borns are restless. They don't like us poking around their nests."
Suddenly, the ground buckled. A —a hulking mass of pale flesh and stone armor—burst through the floorboards of the nearby saloon. It roared, a sound like grinding bone. From the rooftops, screeching Boo-Hags descended, their clawed wings blotting out the moon. "Co-op protocols!" Jesse barked into his receiver. "Setting the trap
Jesse Rentier, the star agent of the Rentier Institute, stood on the tracks of a derailed locomotive near a ghost town in Nevada. His right arm was encased in the , a massive brass-and-iron apparatus humming with unstable electricity. Beside him stood Edgar Gravenor, a weathered veteran who had seen more blood than water in these deserts.
The battle was a symphony of gore and volts. Jesse lunged, his gauntlet connecting with the Leecher’s jaw in an explosion of "Supercharge" energy. The beast’s head snapped back as Jesse followed up with a "Cripple" shot from his Rentier Rifle, shattering its leg armor. In a flash of blue light, another agent—a
The "Online" era of the Institute had changed the game. No longer a lone wolf, Jesse was linked via experimental "Lightning-Comms" to other agents across the territories. They were a brotherhood of sparks in a world of dark.