If you follow, there may be a tomorrow

[warriorscribe]

Characters: Whoever signed up for the hacking plot, and Enoch in the pre-plot mingle, March 10th
Setting: Secret floor for briefing/mingle, and places with terminals for the actual hacking action
Format: Do what you want!
Summary: Enoch doesn't do tech, himself, but he sure as hell can find people that can. It's a mad scramble for Dax's research before time runs out!
Warnings: Things may happen to those involved, and there's no telling what they'll find...

*Everyone who offered their services to the cause will receive a letter in their mailbox (except Mitchell, whom Enoch will contact with whatever method he left him with):

It's time. Meet me in the place.

When everyone is gathered in the secret room, Enoch has to take a moment to take in the sight of this odd group, one of which has endangered his life personally and deliberately. But that didn't matter now, not now when their worlds were at stake.*

You already know what I've gathered you all for. This is strictly for finding what Dax has left us. We must try not to alert Ruana - she is always awake now, so this will be difficult. Do nothing that would immediately draw her attention - do not pursue anything related to her, or to the number thirty-seven. Try to mask your steps, and the others', as well as you can. My role here is as a scribe - I will be making rounds among you and transcribing what you have found, and carrying any messages you may have for the others among the group. We will not escape punishment for this. If you wish to back out now, you may. But this is for our worlds. Does anyone have any questions before we go?

Comments

[animusnpcs]

[Data opens first.]
NAME: Jason (ADMINJ)
DATE OF BIRTH: several centuries after myself and Riki
ABILITIES: Innate knowledge of weaknesses in structures, pinpoint accuracy, self-healing. Far too cruel, volatile, and obnoxious to recruit.

[After that, growth opens up.]
What's interesting to note about Jason is his lack of growth. I didn't notice it before the arrival of the residents, but now that I've a point of comparison, he comes across as especially shallow and single-minded in personality. It's difficult to picture him doing anything except playing in corpses and manipulating wireframe Glamour. This may say something about us.

[midgarhorizon]

[Reno snorts. It makes him wonder if Jason experience 'growth' in the last moments before he died.]

Thanks.

[And then...]

Go back to Zo. Is the encrypted file here the same as the one in the upper level?

[animusnpcs]

[The screen returns to Zo's file.]

> Yes.

[midgarhorizon]

[He won't bother with that since the others are already on it, then.]


Go back to Riki. Why is there no Growth file on him?

[animusnpcs]

[And now Riki's information shows up.]

> Direct data is not available on this subject. Extrapolating, it is likely because Dax and Riki were born within a similar time frame.

[midgarhorizon]

Is that why there is no information on Dax?

[animusnpcs]

> Extrapolation: Dax had no need to keep a file on himself.

[midgarhorizon]

[Good point, but he had to check anyway.]

Are there any more hidden files?

[animusnpcs]

> No.

[midgarhorizon]

[Reno thinks for a moment, going over what he's discovered so far about the administrators.]

With the current data, can you extrapolate how powerful Zo will be on his third birthday?

[animusnpcs]

> Extrapolation: Zo's abilities at that point should in theory encompass even the most abstract concept of a barrier.

[midgarhorizon]

[Whoa...]

Can Zo restore the infected worlds?

[animusnpcs]

> This was a theory put forth by Dax, but the theory has not been proven or disproven.

[midgarhorizon]

Did he leave anything on how to test that theory?

[animusnpcs]

> No records found.

[midgarhorizon]

[So they'll have to come up with their own, which might just be asking Zo to try. Reno's got quite a bit of useful info out of this thing so far, and it might be time to wrap up, after one last thing.]

Is there any way to access the directory folder called ADMIND without getting the BADDOG error?

[animusnpcs]

> ERROR.

[midgarhorizon]

[Well, that settles that.]

If I need to access this AI in the future, how can I do that?

[animusnpcs]

> Unknown. I may be deleted now that my existence is known.

[midgarhorizon]

[He glances over at Xion, frowning.]

Is it possible to copy you into another subsystem or download into a mobile device? Like a retrieval unit? Or resident?

[Hey, theoretically, it's possible to download a soul into a computer back home...]

[animusnpcs]

> Download of that nature would not be possible excepting the case of residential androids, robots, or similar.

[midgarhorizon]

Noted. Copy this information to Xion's terminal.

[He'll be helping Xion with the downloading process.]

[animusnpcs]

> Done.

[The information has been passed to Xion's terminal.]