Ex Machina; Infiltration

[animusmods]

Characters: Riki and the infiltration team
Setting: administrative levels
Format: any
Summary: Riki's efforts must be sabotaged. Stealth is the name of the game and time is of the essence.
Warnings: psychological horror

Though the chipped unit does not follow, he sees to it that the team advances the rest of the way. At the end of the lit corridor is a set of double doors, heavy-duty polished metal with small windows set into each one.

Through the windows, a massive machine is visible, connected to thousands of holographic screens that are hard to make out at the speed at which they're being manipulated. The machine sits in the center of the room and is networked to four elaborate terminals stationed along the walls via a complex tangle of panels, wires, and towers. Each of these terminals controls its own set of floating screens; the sheer amount of holographic monitors in the room is disorienting, and really, it's hard to tell what's connected to what.

In the chair in the middle of the enormous set-up is Riki, maneuvering all of the screens with the same ease with which most people breathe. His back is to the doors that lead into the room, and for the moment, he is utterly engrossed in his work.

Comments

[keybearer]

Hmm, so no magic, then. I can work with that. Means less of a risk of damaging the place, anyway.

[They'll just have to stay on guard and hope that Riki doesn't try to pull any fast ones. He's already pulled the wool over their eyes once before.]

You know how many are tagging along for this?

[warriorscribe]

Hmm...Reno, Lancer...myself and yourself... Perhaps four or five, maybe six. *Some people hadn't voiced an opinion, after all.* Enough to be considered a normal infiltration group.

*That is, it wouldn't arouse suspicion beyond them being down here in the first place.*

[keybearer]

Six might be a good place to cap it. It's still fairly large, but at least we won't be bringing in a whole army.

[Bring too many people, and Riki may think they wish to attack him. Not exactly the brightest idea in his book.]

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch nods. Certainly, many people would have questions for him, and a mass trip downstairs would be feasible given he likely knows about Aria - or knows there is a retrieval unit helping residents - but the more people there, the more threatening it will seem even if all of them try to act as benign as possible.*

I wouldn't want to refuse anyone, but...we will see how many of us there are, by the time the others are done with the terminals.