<> <> <> <<(go!)>> * Fitzroy strolls out from the hackin' room to find Ian stirring.. or awake.. or both, "Oh good. We were just coming to try and wake you up." I really don't know whether to love or hate this thing. What's been going on? I don't remember how long you've been out, but we've got ourselves a mission. * Leopoldo walks out behind Roy. "Things have been being found out, is all." * Demetreia follows Roy and Leo out. She's still tongueflicking rather absently, but catches herself this time and actually manages to stop. Oh, good. You are conscious again. Mission? * Demetreia is also patting her arms vaguely. It's good to have limbs again. Yeah. There's a company called ZeRoCanx that we're supposed to infiltrate and gather info on. Yeah. Doin' really weird, and amazing, stuff. Ah? The others went to scout the physical building, while the three of us went to check out their system. What'd you find, Roy? (... Good entrance. ^^;) Well, we've got a map of their system. Most of the defenses are standard stuff, but there's some heavier stuff inside that we'll need Ian's help for. * Ian grins. "I'll try, anyway." * Katherine must be in the apartment, then. She's flexing her hands idly. "Did you get anything on the actual building layout?" * Rochelle is curled up on a chair. She might be asleep. * Leopoldo looks over at Roy. * Fitzroy thinks, "We some information about some of the physical systems we'll have to deal with.. Nanocameras, elevators, door locks and so on." They've even got some robots and turrets that need to be shut down or dealt with. Nasty stuff. Sounds fun. * Ian raises an eyebrow. "What are they up to?" Oh yeah. I did see they had a map of the building, but I didn't try breaking in to get it. It should be easy to get to. They? .. The company? * Ian nods. Oh, they've got some weird cure-all remedy from some kind of crystal thing. (Oh, this bodes poorly.) * Katherine says, while frowning, "Definitely AllDrug." (AllDrug. The Metabolife of THE FUTURE>) * Ian winces. "Oh, boy." (Did we ever hear about AllDrug? ^^;) That's what I said. (I don't think Kat and Thren were too keen on exact explaination.) * Threnody appears to be meditating, because Todd just fell asleep in his chair. Twice. * Demetreia blinks. "Definitely what?" AllDrug? Care to give an explaination? Like I said, some crystal that supposedly cures anything. * Katherine rubs her head. "Right. It's... god. Give me a second." She rubs her head. "That's about it, but it had side effects. Bad ones." ( Kat rubs her head too much and goes bald. ) (Kat rubs her head and chops off her hands) ( Doesn't her head, like, kill things though? Like, with the hair? ) (She can turn it off.) (Which is very good.) ...oh. (Indeed.) * Katherine stops rubbing her head and ticks on her fingers. "Uh... from Sleythin, cures just about anything, but... uh... the only person I think it was ever used on went batshit fucking insane. I'm sorta half-remembering this, here, so..." * Threnody opens one eye, training it on Katherine, then shuts it again and 'speaks' so everyone can hear. %% It rewrites your DNA. The Sleythin consider it a 'mistake'. It's highly unstable and over time invariably results in a messy, unpleasant demise. %% ... Ewww. *Wow,* is that ever a bad thing. * Rochelle flicks her ear. %% The crystal isn't really a 'crystal'. It's an energy matrix in crystalline form, if I remember correctly. It should never, ever be used. %% Sounds fun. * Fitzroy frowns, "Yeah." So what do you want to bet that what we've gotta do is get rid of this thing? * Threnody then gets to rubbing his temples. Ah, hello, migraine. * Katherine looks over at Thren, shakes her head as if clearing it, then looks over at Leo. "How are we supposed to do that? If there's more than one office, we can't hit them all." And since there is more than one, we're just stuck with what we got here. I think...there are multiple people like us who are supposed to do this? * Leopoldo nods. Yeah. It's a planet-wide strike, supposedly. There we go. * Ian raises an eyebrow. The least we can do is make it known that this stuff is Really Bad. * Katherine licks her lips, then nods at Roy. "You might not even be able to destroy it, so... yeah. Send it around on the network or something." * Katherine sighs. "Problem is we have to prove it, so... the breakin. Other than where the elevators are, there wasn't that much to see in the lobby for me. Vera?" She looks over at the couch. "Roch?" * Rochelle opens her eyes and looks at Katherine. * Rochelle shakes her head after a moment. * Vera shrugs. "You saw what I saw." You guys need that map to look at? Yeah. * Fitzroy heads back to the hackin' room. "Alright. Back in a few." * Katherine exhales tiredly, then gets a faint smile. <> * Katherine stands there for a few seconds, then looks over at Vera and says, "Good questions, by the way." * Demetreia wanders over to the couch and sits down. Yeah. I'm a pro. * Fitzroy shows up a few minutes later.. on the wallscreen. He's in a white suit with a blue monogrammed "KB" on it. * Katherine is mid-stretch when Roy pops up, and blinks "... nice suit, Roy." * Fitzroy is in a mostly white room. You can make out a wall of monitors in the background. He grins, "Thanks. This is my avatar in cyberspace." * Leopoldo raises an eyebrow. "Yeah." I've got that map. Awesome * Fitzroy causes the right 3/4 of the screen to show the map, while he stands in the left 1/4th. <> <<... so it's a damn good thing they actually keep the AllDrug in the basement.>> <> Well, that's convenient ... Quite convenient, yes. * Katherine eyes the layout, and after she takes that little fact in, says, "... Oh, for god's sake." * Ian grins. "Ah, the little details." Oh, and Ian. I'm sending you a map of the system, if you'd like to take a look. Ah, thanks - I'll do that. * Katherine walks over to the wallscreen and says, "Do you have any more defense data than this?" * Rochelle looks at it. Tail twitch. * Leopoldo looks at it and looks somewhat confused. But tries to make heads and tails of it anyways. * Fitzroy scratches his head.. then waves his hand toward the map. Some overlays show up. "These are the robot routes and security gates." I can't get the exact location of the nanocameras though. * Katherine frowns at it, "Well, then, can you knock them all out? And change the view down to just the first floor and basement?" * Demetreia looks, frowning in thought. Or confusion. Whichever. * Fitzroy changes the view for Kat, "We should be able to disable most of this stuff for you." < (+>>) We can't get to the robots, but the rest seems to be accessible. * Katherine mms, and says, "... Okay, so what all can we DO, here? Since most of us are cybered. I've already seen some of what Thren's got." 2d6-2 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Katherine (2d6-2) and gets 5. * Leopoldo thinks for a few. * Fitzroy pulls a comfy chair over from off-screen and sits down. * Katherine mms and draws a clawed finger along the panel. Good thing it only _looks_ clawed. "And Roy said Deme does forcefields. That's begging for her to stand in front." * Demetreia cringes. I'm stronger, faster, and can see in the dark? Oh, and supposedly I know how to use this sword, but I haven't the foggiest on anything beyond 'hit the bad guys with the pointy slashy end'. Thren can give Leo a sword lesson or two, and hold the side. Vera gets to cover people, since she's apparently the only person around here with a damn gun. * Katherine frowns at the KB, and pokes at him. "You don't need to go in, right? That takes you... and Ian, out of it?" * Ian nods. "I'd probably be more help from here." They might be able to actually do something from here, if I'm not mistaken? Yeah. I think that's what we usually do anyway. * Katherine frowns thinly, but doesn't turn from the screen. "That was the impression by them being out of it. Roch can be our invisible potato scout." She looks over at Roch and gives her faint smile. "You're not going to get to sit out of this." (Agree on the plan and we'll call it for tonight.) (A man. A plan. A canal. Dunno!) (DUNNOCORP!) * Vera shakes her head. (I'm not a man.) (Is it a doughnut, or is it a DUNNOUGHT?) Hope she's feeling in a good enough mood to warn us if there's a guard around the corner or something * Katherine rolls her eyes. "If she doesn't and we get killed, you can be comforted by the fact that she'll be dead inside of ten years or so by old age." She turns to Deme. "Do you know how to use the forcefields Roy says you have?" * Rochelle yawns at Kat. Yeah, that's comforting. * Demetreia bites her lip. "I, er...oh." * Demetreia blinks. "They're...on?" ( Er, wait. ) <> * Vera stares. "What the heck?" * Katherine stares too. "... That is a yes. Hot damn." * Rochelle doesn't look surprised. But she's a cat. * Ian blinks. "...wow!" * Demetreia stares at them. "...oh, my." * Katherine puts out her hand extremely tentatively, towards the shimmerwub. <> Nice, very nice. * Fitzroy nods his approval. Er...thank you? Huh. Just like an invisible wall. Well, I wish I knew how they pulled THAT trick, but we probably don't have time. Stuff from this place could drive cyber research for years. * Demetreia moves her hands around slightly, and the circles follow where her hands point. ....wow. Bet you're glad it didn't eradicate your hand when you touched it, huh, Kat? * Leopoldo nods. "That's very impressive." (Kay. Wind down!) * Katherine snickers. "Yeah. Probably woulda cost too much to replace it." * Katherine lowers her hand. "So, we go in like I said, grab everything from the bottom floor, and hope we get out before we disappear, assuming Anders doesn't come in and tell us we need to rescue a flock of bunnies, and hopefully get out of here." * Demetreia squinches her face slightly, biting her lip, and the circles disappear. "That is...interesting." ( But they're Bunnies of DESTINY! No fuckin' way. ) Easy enough. * Leopoldo nods. "Okay." (Last poseseseses!) ( *is done* ) * Ian cracks his knuckles and starts organizing the system information. * Katherine gets a faint smile on her face, and turns back to the map quietly. <>