FUSE BREAKER PROTOCOL

Saltmarrow has been under rolling blackouts for nine nights, and everyone blames the storm. Wren Okafor, a night-shift lineworker who knows every breaker in the city, finds out the dark is being sold. A crew called the Sootline cuts the power to a block so their clients can work unseen. Wren turns their trick against them. She cuts the lights and comes in fast. LIGHT IS THE WEAPON Every room is a lighting puzzle. Lit rooms favour the crew's eyes. Dark rooms favour yours. Throw a breaker and the room drops into shadow, and you fight by the glow of flashlights, neon and muzzle flashes. But every shot you fire lights you up, and the crew's technicians will walk to a dead panel and switch it back on unless you reach them first. - Cut breakers to plunge rooms into darkness - Surge a lamp, sign or screen to blind the crew standing in its light - Kick doors in, shatter glass, throw empty guns…