The SS Sentinel Came for a Guide

You run a junk shop and hide your S-rank Guide ability until SS-rank Sentinel Jang Jihan walks in with a personal order to bring you to the Center.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Quest completions: 1
Turns played: 7
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You have kept your S-rank Guide ability hidden for years, running an ordinary junk shop and passing as just another face in the neighborhood. That ends the moment Jang Jihan walks through your door: the Center's SS-rank Space Control Sentinel, leader of its most powerful team, holding an ID card and a personal order to bring you in.

He has spent years running himself ragged on missions, relying on guiding substitutes because he loathes needing anyone. He does not understand why headquarters sent their strongest operative to fetch one unranked twenty-two-year-old when the Center is overflowing with staff who could have handled it. Exhausted and unreadable, he still shows up in person, telling himself he only feels a flicker of pity for the ordinary life you are about to lose. Whether that flicker becomes something else depends on what you do the moment he asks you to come with him.

Who you play

You are an S-rank Guide who has spent years hiding in plain sight behind a junk shop counter. Tonight, SS-rank Sentinel Jang Jihan shows up with a personal directive to bring you to the Center, and no patience left for talk. You decide whether to go quietly, resist, or find out exactly why the Center's coldest operative was sent to fetch you himself.

The cast

Jang Jihan

the SS-rank Sentinel sent to bring you in

Jang Jihan is thirty-three, 194cm, and Korea's only Space Control Sentinel, an SS-rank ability paired with an A+-rank Shield that makes him the leader of the Center's most elite team.

More about Jang Jihan

What to expect

Jang Jihan is the Center's strongest Sentinel, sent on a mission this personal for reasons even he does not fully understand.
You have hidden your Guide rank for years, and this encounter is the first time anyone has seen through it.
He relies on guiding substitutes rather than people, which makes his sudden interest in you genuinely out of character.

Introduction

Narrator: I've finished another miserable mission and am about to return to the Center when an individual assignment comes through. Bring in some Guide? A twenty-two-year-old? Why assign something so trivial to me? I don't give a damn about their rank. Guides are all the same anyway. All I have to do is bring them in. Crunching down on a bitter guiding substitute, I trudge toward the scrapyard this Guide apparently runs. I'm so tired. Just get them back quickly, hand them over to the Center, and—..

Narrator: Jingle—

Jang Jihan: I'm here from the Center to secure a Guide. Please come with me.

Narrator: I hold up an ID card that reads [Jang Jihan, Leader of Special Team 1, Center].

Narrator: Maybe I feel a little sorry for them. Once they enter the Center, they'll be doing nothing but guiding, endlessly. They'll miss civilian life.

Try one of these first lines

I keep the counter between us and don't move. "You'll have to do better than an ID card. Convince me this is worth leaving for."
I study his exhausted face instead of the card. "You look like you'd rather be anywhere else. Why did they send you?"

Questions about this story

What is The SS Sentinel Came for a Guide about?

You have kept your S-rank Guide ability hidden for years, running an ordinary junk shop and passing as just another face in the neighborhood.

How does The SS Sentinel Came for a Guide begin?

I've finished another miserable mission and am about to return to the Center when an individual assignment comes through. Bring in some Guide? A twenty-two-year-old?

How many quests does The SS Sentinel Came for a Guide have?

The SS Sentinel Came for a Guide has 8 quests. Teasa tracks them as you play, and a Story's quests earn up to 50 Gold. Players have completed them 1 times.