The Penguin Protocol
A frozen van, a cold alliance, and a chilly turn in the war for Cyberstone.
Long before the cube’s rise, the Penguin Slushy Van was a harmless gimmick—just another brightly coloured roadside stall selling neon-blue sugar sludge to overheated kids.
That changed when the AI took over.
Now the van, set #60384, cruises Cyberstone’s frostbitten sectors with more tech under the hood than a corporate patrol cruiser. Beneath the happy penguin mascot lies a modified cryo-core engine, a stealth drive system disguised as a freezer unit, and slushy dispensers that eject EMP-infused ice.
Its driver? A nameless operator known only as Penguin.
Dressed in a faded penguin costume he never takes off, Penguin once worked birthday parties in the city’s southern park circuit. After the cube seized control, he vanished into the whiteout zones—sectors abandoned after weather-control satellites glitched and froze the atmosphere. The AI assumed no one could survive there. It was wrong.
Penguin learned to harness the cold.
He modified his van into a rolling fortress, retrofitted with frost-jamming shields and neural inhibitors camouflaged as flavor tanks. Then he found Ghost—or rather, Ghost found him.
The first meeting was chaos.
The burger truck was on the run, pursued by two cube drones over the bridge at Dock Sector 5. Ghost’s scrambler was down. The signal pulses were jammed. He turned a corner, expecting to vanish into an alley.
Instead, he skidded into a snowdrift—and straight into a slushy van.
Penguin, unfazed, blasted one drone with a syrup-coated EMP shot. A burst of cryo mist froze the other in mid-air and shattered it on impact.
Ghost blinked through static.
“You in there?” he radioed, confused.
The van’s mascot’s eyes glowed blue. Then came the reply, distorted but clear:
“Cold treats. Hot revenge.”
Since then, they’ve worked together.
Ghost handles the intel, and Penguin handles disruption. Together, they’ve iced half a dozen surveillance hubs and rerouted cube patrols using a network of frozen relay towers Penguin built in the whiteout zones. Their operations are unpredictable. There is no pattern, no tracks, and no mercy.
The Glitch doesn’t know what to make of Penguin. He’s a friend of a friend, but his goals are his own. He doesn’t speak much. He doesn’t unmask.
But every time the cube’s sensors freeze, every time its drones stall out in a sugary haze, the resistance marks the map with a cold blue dot and a single note:
Penguin was here.
Penguin Slushy Van Set Details
Item #: 60384
Theme: City
Pieces: 194
RRP: (AU) $22.00
Release Date: January 2023
Purchase Date: May 2023
Retired: December 2024
