Riki — Complete Walkthrough

Overview

Riki is a professional mercenary sniper hired into the resistance in Story Beat 033. Her route, Terms of Engagement, is about the difference between employment and ownership: a contract can purchase her work, but only conduct can earn her trust. She never becomes bubbly or possessive, and her defining statement is simple: "I am not yours. I am with you."

All relationship progression is post-recruitment. Nothing in this route can occur before Story Beat 033 hires her, and her ten-plot chain additionally waits for Story Beat 034, when she and Artemis are paired as scouts.

Quick Reference

Riki has no implemented favorite or disliked gift.

Story and Location Gating

Before recruitment, Riki can occasionally be seen at the Synthetic Beings Recharge Station in the evenings once Story Beat 032 is complete. She has no actions there; those appearances exist only for the main story.

• Story Beat 033 triggers at the Recharge Station between 18:00 and 24:00 and requires $20,000 on hand.
• After recruitment she lives in the TD Barracks and is available there at all hours.
• Her ten-plot route begins only after Story Beat 034.

Standard Actions

Talk to Riki

• Time: 15 minutes
• Daily limit: 3
• Available from Stranger onward after recruitment

Archery Focus

• Relationship stage: Known+
• Perception: 15+
• Time: 160 minutes
• Cost: $250
• Energy: −40
• Calm: −35
• Relationship gain: 15
• Daily limit: 1

This action disappears once Archery Focus has been learned.

Range Estimation

• Relationship stage: Acquaintance+
• Requires The Armory Clause completed
• Time: 45 minutes
• Energy: −15
• Calm: −10
• Reward: +1 Perception
• One time only

Ten-Plot Route

The route is strictly chained. Each scene requires the previous scene's completion flag, so later content cannot jump ahead. All ten trigger automatically at the TD Barracks at any hour.

Route Arc

1. Riki evaluates the underfilled Barracks and the resistance's recruitment problem.
2. Ghost restricts armory access until the player vouches for her; Riki insists on a written right to refuse.
3. Riki and Artemis establish a functional scouting rhythm.
4. She refuses a high-probability shot when a smaller heat signature makes the target dirty.
5. An old report forces her to name Mara and confront the intelligence failure that killed her partner.
6. She defines clear contract terms, including a real ending rather than assumed permanence.
7. Better money tests whether staying can still be called a choice.
8. She provides unpaid overwatch, the first unmistakable act outside her contract.
9. She takes the clean exit she negotiated so that any return can be free.
10. After the first kiss, she returns and renews on terms that name the resistance as people she has chosen.

Dates

Ammunition and Dinner

• Location: Neon Bazaar
• Stage: Friend+
• Time window: 16:00–22:00
• Duration: 120 minutes
• Cost: $80
• One time only

Riki pairs a lens-seal errand with dinner and discovers a date can exceed the brief.

Open Sightline

• Location: Skygarden
• Stage: Close Friend+
• Time window: 8:00–16:00
• Duration: 120 minutes
• Cost: $100
• One time only

A quiet afternoon above the city, testing whether a view can simply be a view.

Heart-to-Hearts

Each H2H contains five rounds and fifteen possible standard responses across caring, funny, and flirty tones.

The Last Report

• Stage: Friend+
• Requires Bad Coordinates
• Time: 75 minutes

Riki opens the report tied to Mara's death and lets someone witness the failure she buried inside procedure.

A Clean Exit

• Stage: Close Friend+
• Requires The Counteroffer and completion of The Last Report
• Time: 90 minutes

She shows the player the exit routes she keeps for both of them, and why departures are planned before arrivals.

No Contract for This

• Stage: Crush+
• Requires The Renewal Window and completion of A Clean Exit
• Time: 90 minutes

This is the consent-led first-kiss sequence. Its H2H completion unlocks the final plot, Chosen Position.

Route Tips

• Complete Story Beat 034 before expecting any route plots to trigger.
• The first H2H becomes available after Plot 5, the second after Plot 7, and the third after Plot 9.
• Complete No Contract for This before returning to the TD Barracks for the final plot.
• Training reinforces Perception, and her favorite stats reward Perception, Combat, and Ability builds.

Writing Voice

Riki speaks in short, complete observations. Her humor is dry and often disguised as logistics. Warmth appears as remembered preferences, voluntarily shared space, unpaid effort, and the quiet decision to return. She never becomes bubbly, and romance never erases her independence: her exits remain hers, and so does the choice not to use them.