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« Reply #330 on: <08-12-11/2104:26> »
The entire wall, that the door was on, has been blown apart.  Inside the room, there are a few real wooden chairs, now upturned and splintered.  There is likewise a wooden desk, flipped on its front.  Behind the desk, you can see what looks like a large bucket with wheels, blown most the way through the right wall into the office next door.  there is another door between this room and the executive office proper.  The door is partially made of real glass, or was.  It is now shattered.  Despite the damage it is obvious that this was a waiting room for the office in the back. 

The back office was fairly dark, with all the lights blown out like they were, but there was still a lit portion of the ceiling by the outside windows.  Through the shattered glass and ruined frame of the door, a larger desk dominated the room.  At the desk sat a skeleton, laying face down with arms to each side of its head.  Next to the skeleton was a small holdout pistol.  Looked like maybe a Colt Takedown, a 2-shot breach loader that fits heavy pistol rounds in a tiny package.  They had to stop making these after a few laws were changed back in '58.  The corpse itself was wearing what had to be a 5000¥ suit back in its day.  There was probably a collectors market for shit like this.  Suits that survived Chicago.  A whole world of terrible people with too much money and not enough sense, ready to lap up anything out of the ordinary.  Everything about this work was a little macabre and sick.

Searching the corpse brought up a credstick with 6000¥, a slip full of IDs and security badges and a filigreed silver cigarette case with gold lining around the mouth.  Inside, instead of cigarettes was a golden spoon, and several vials of white powder.

On the table was an old style computer terminal.
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« Reply #331 on: <08-13-11/0625:54> »
Still a little shaken by the explosion Code was on his feet as soon as he saw the computer. Close look to check the cabling before turning it on.
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« Reply #332 on: <08-13-11/0642:11> »
Devoted took a look around the room, his vision switched to astral perception to check for anything magically active.

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« Reply #333 on: <08-14-11/0559:08> »
Clearing the dessicated corpse out of the way with a swipe, Code inspected the old terminal.  It was hardwired into the network and even had a jackpoint built into the base of its ancient liquid crystal display.  It didn't look like Mr. Pelletier would be using it, but Code could certainly try to log in.

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« Reply #334 on: <08-14-11/0745:11> »
Waiting no further. Code jacked in and hacked into the network.
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« Reply #335 on: <08-24-11/0404:05> »
Just as the plug landed in the hairy head, Code's thought - "You crazy monkey, when will you learn not to put everything into your brain?!"
With that the vision blurred and the reality filter after initial buzz kicked in.

The interface was odd but the signals finally settled into familiar environment. For this time Code has choosen a rat labirynth theme. His icon sculpted as a rat with a white legs and a node sculpted like a tall walls. Data blocks sculpted as a cheese pieces were laying by the wall. He scanned them grabbing the entrances log and among them the ID of Mr. Pelletier, that resculpted as key. He grabbed it with a tail and with that closed to the rat hole in the wall. It was closed by the rusty lock. The key didn't fit well, either due to the internal flaws, or the key wasn't good, but eventually it gave way and Code logged into next node.

Guys, I've passed the gateway firewall. Going further ...
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« Reply #336 on: <08-24-11/0507:53> »
"Um... good luck in there. Hope you find more than us... just a bunch of old junk here."

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« Reply #337 on: <08-24-11/1100:53> »
Next part of the labirynth looked newer. The walls were no longer plain grey concrete walls, but a a red brick walls. This was probably floor subprocessor node.

On the brick shelf a crow was sitting. The bird gave voice as soon as he spotted the Code's ratty icon. The doors in the rathole at the other side also looked newer even though the IC algorithm was probably the same. The hole started to lower additional gate urging to haste. There was no time for subtlety now. When the lock failed to give way under the key he was carrying, Rat flashed his teeth, they were made of steel. A short bite torn the lock out of them, stopping the additional gate from closing as well.

Now he look around among the cheese he found something really precious. The piece of data resculpted as a crown and coat. RatKing icon stood up on the two feet and walked for a while streching.
Oh yeah baby, oh yeah.

All right fellows, I've made it to the floor subprocessor, got the admin account. I'll take a look around and move forward...
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« Reply #338 on: <08-24-11/2246:05> »
Digger completes his quiet and cursory search of the office, his attention more on outward threats and inner temptaions than salvage.  All he is interested in is another drink, but now his emergency flask is gone, the potent concoction effectively removing him from reality for a bit, and taking away all the horrors of the lasts few hours.

Drink?  WINE.  The hidden cache.  "OK, get back to work." he mutters to himself, the slurring evident.

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« Reply #339 on: <08-26-11/2301:00> »
CodeMonkey knew it wouldn't take long, so he systematically cleared the whole floor's computer systems one at a time.   A couple of the computers had IC that took an extra bit of convincing to fall in line, but they all ended up deactivated.  Some of the systems he connected to were near-toxic, the code had degraded so much, but his Biofeedback filter kept all the digital garbage from actually frying neurons.  The data itself was old, and highly specialized, mostly dealing with industry contacts from the 2050s. There might be a nugget of gold somewhere in the silt, but the old saying seemed to be proving itself true.  A Publicist is just a phone that knows other numbers.  None of these people did real business.

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« Reply #340 on: <08-29-11/0709:58> »
RatKing inside the labirynth took a careful look on the violet-shaded rathole that marked entrance to the another node.

Devo, I got to trust you now. That node before me isn't safe. Stand behind me please, If you see antyhing wrong (like the brain flowing through the ears or the smoke around the trode), pull the jack out of my brain as fast as possible, and have some medicine nearby please, I might be needing some fixing after this...

With that, RatKing icon and went forward
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« Reply #341 on: <08-30-11/0609:28> »
Code scrambled and pushed his way out from what appeared to be an oriental rug.  The Trunk's considerable power easily overwhelmed his reality filter and he found himself a rat scurrying across a fine wooden floor.  In the distance he saw an icon of an unassuming man in a black suit and tie idly smoking behind a monolithic desk.  The room itself was equally immense to Code's tiny form, though each of its areas and uses was immediately clear.  The walls were pasted every where with windows, flooding the whole office with light.  In each window was a process, blazing away.  The errant code and errors found in the previous systems was conspicuously absent.  Whatever this construct was, it was digitally self-sustaining, and had been running without error for over 20 years.  It's arm reached up, plucked the glasses off its face and, having wiped them with a rag, returned them to its face.

It looked down to the floor and saw Code's fuzzy little icon frozen by the side of a Pembroke table on which sat a Russian samovar and several delicate coffee cups.  It smiled a bit as Code's icon morphed and grew until it filled the room like a regular-sized person, regular sized, though ratlike in features.  Tapping its cigarette on the side of an ashtray, it spoke.
"Oh, good.  You managed to get in without rousing the security.  I find their presence most irritating."
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« Reply #342 on: <08-30-11/0626:08> »
Believing that the entrance went unnoticed would be hoping for too much. Code knew his capabilities and the software he had at hand. What he had was good for cracking common links on the streets, for the ex-UV node even after 20 years, it's close to nothing.

Still he took a close look around. That construct seemed interesting and it's gestures almost human. Someone sculpted him real good. IC usually don't waste precious cycles on uselesss animations.
The only crime so far the Rat has made was to enter without invitation. Good enough reason to crash the icon for any attack IC.

Speed was of the essence now. On the first hostile move of the construct he should be ready to logoff, or jump into higher floor subprocessor node.
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« Reply #343 on: <08-30-11/0734:54> »
"Oh, still a bit of a rat I see?  How droll.  I suppose introductions are in order?  I am called Hector, also SAKI, but I don't particularly like to be called by the latter name.  I noticed you trying to log in with my ID earlier and hoped you would find a way in.  It has been far too many clock cycles since I've seen anyone."

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« Reply #344 on: <08-30-11/0745:22> »
About 20 times your yearly cycles number I guess. You probably know the exact value, which isn't anywhere close to the meaning of the word 'Boredom'. I'm Rat. Why did you choose Hector?

You hoped I find a way in? I don't recall any of your class to be hoping for anything, you had a lot of time to develop. My respect.

So, ... what are you doing here Hector?


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