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Smoke and Gears: The Final Performance
Nathan Arclay
Dec 4, 202547 min
Action

Smoke and Gears: The Final Performance

Under festival lights and the scent of fried dough, a veteran illusionist uses his rigging skills to stop a violent sabotage aimed at his signature spectacle. As the city watches a staged finale, Cass chooses to confront danger with mechanical mastery, risking everything to save the crowd and reconnect with his daughter.

577
6.74
Tethered Honor
Rafael Donnier
Dec 4, 202566 min
Action

Tethered Honor

A veteran rigging specialist balances skill, guilt, and an escalating sabotage that threatens her city’s aerial network. As the skyways groan and a spectacle approaches, she must perform a dangerous technical rescue, stop the collapse with an invention of her own, and decide whether to save a friend who once betrayed the crew. The finale is resolved through her professional action, not revelation, and leaves her changing from solitary operator to a teacher of a small rapid-response corps, while the city keeps its markets, scents, and absurd little gnome mascots alive.

2042
5.99
Holding the Line
Helena Carroux
Dec 4, 202563 min
Action

Holding the Line

Kade Reyes, a seasoned rigger, must physically stop a series of coordinated sabotages at a city's parade. As anchors fail and a central truss threatens the crowd, Kade uses hands-on splicing and improvisation to reroute loads under extreme pressure. The climax resolves through his professional action amid odd, human moments—and the aftermath reshapes how his community cares for spectacle.

1188
5.96
Tetherline
Edgar Mallin
Dec 3, 202570 min
Action

Tetherline

Rope-access rigger Rhea Calder returns to her rooftop neighborhood to open a community-run Skycare Cooperative. Amid sea-breeze markets, pastry stalls, and a raccoon mascot, she trains neighbors, negotiates politics, and performs a last, skillful tensioning under public gaze to prove the co-op's worth.

1101
5.63
Holdfast
Oliver Merad
Dec 3, 202598 min
Action

Holdfast

A veteran rigger, Asha Cole, moves through a festival dusk to avert a catastrophic oscillation in the city's suspended market when a new kinetic installation interacts with aging anchors. Against bureaucratic choreography and absurd spectacle, she must use knots, timing and raw rigging skill to steady a living system and protect people who trade above the harbor.

2787
5.9
Sky Stitchers
Felix Norwin
Nov 29, 202540 min
Action

Sky Stitchers

In a rain-slicked city festival, rope-access technician Cass Hale must physically reroute a failing skywalk's load to save a crowd. Tense rigging, gusting winds, and absurd obstacles—an inflatable mascot and a rubber-duck drone—complicate the rescue as Cass uses her skills to stitch a new lifeline and, in doing so, begins to let others in.

819
6.37
Skysplice
Marcel Trevin
Nov 29, 202544 min
Action

Skysplice

In a tiered city of cables and cabins, veteran rigger Rowan Keel races to secure a failing Midline span. Wind, rivalry and a jarring improvised splice force him into a dangerous crossing, a scuffle for the rescue clamp, and a final, hands‑on decision that stitches a community back together.

970
6.22
Crossfire Protocol
Hans Greller
Nov 28, 202546 min
Action

Crossfire Protocol

A rain-slick city, a stolen Arc Core, and one man forced to choose: Rowan Vale must rescue his sister and stop a staged demonstration that could cripple the grid. Tension cuts through polished civic theater as sabotage and public spectacle collide in a tense, high-stakes assault where every second counts.

605
5.6
Gridfall Protocol
Jon Verdin
Nov 28, 202543 min
Action

Gridfall Protocol

Ari Calder, an ex-infrastructure engineer turned salvage operator, recovers a black-market control module—the Nullcoil—and uncovers a corporate conspiracy to weaponize municipal systems during the Red Lock ceremony. The final chapter follows a midnight infiltration of the Splice Node, a desperate broadcast that exposes Gideon Stroud’s directives, and a costly rescue that leaves the city shaken and allies scarred.

849
6.34
Blackout Protocol
Ronan Fell
Nov 28, 202545 min
Action

Blackout Protocol

After a privatized security firm weaponizes infrastructure, an ex-grid engineer must stop a coordinated city-wide blackout tied to a stolen energy stabilizer. Betrayal, coercion, and a ticking cascade force her out of hiding to assemble a ragged team and reclaim control before the city goes dark.

3059
6.61
Obsidian Run
Brother Alaric
Nov 25, 202550 min
Action

Obsidian Run

A tense, rain-soaked assault on a fortified industrial stronghold culminates in a fight to free a captive and stop a device that can rewrite the city's records. Anya must break into the Foundry, confront a corporate architect of control, and choose how to handle the weapon she once helped build.

2955
5.68
Crosswire Protocol
Benedict Marron
Nov 25, 202547 min
Action

Crosswire Protocol

Jaxon Hale and Kade Mercer mount a high-risk assault on Vale's Pulse Tower to sever the master relay of the Crosswire protocol and rescue Nadia Holt. Inside Vale's server vault they face Valkyrie-precision security, a public narrative engineered to frame Jaxon, and a desperate digital gambit that forces splintered choices. As Kade deploys a kill vector to isolate the master and Jaxon wrestles the relay loose, the building convulses with alarms and a fatal scramble for control.

1524
6
Razor Line
Leonhard Stramm
Nov 17, 2025124 min
Action

Razor Line

Former courier Elias Kade wakes framed for violent theft after a midnight drop goes wrong. Chased through rail yards, corporate vaults, and a city wired for control, he races to expose a private security magnate’s plot to weaponize infrastructure while protecting his sister and choosing how to pay the cost.

1222
6.42
Faultline Run
Mariel Santhor
Nov 9, 202584 min
Action

Faultline Run

A burned identity, a halted network, and a city waiting for the consequences. Cole Vance triggers a hardware shutdown on a corporate-controlled platform to stop a synchronized activation that would seize urban infrastructure. The act saves lives but destroys the cryptographic proof that could clear his name; regulators and leaks press Aegis into scrutiny even as personal cost forces him off the map.

1475
6.48
Crimson Vector
Hans Greller
Nov 9, 202558 min
Action

Crimson Vector

A battered courier is pulled back into a lethal chase when a stolen prototype core and a kidnapped ally set off a high-stakes countdown. In a neon-industrial city, he must board an airborne command platform to stop a public demonstration that could reroute civic systems—buying time with sabotage, risking everything for a single live handshake.

1922
6.37
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