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Robynne is right. We take a sample of it now and keep it in a sandbox to we can test it, trick the thing to thinking it's succeeding and maybe learn some more about who placed the damn thing. Then we go with microexplosives on the correct boil. I ma…
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Flora and Fauna, the twins, are talking up a storm about what they've scouted, bows slung over their backs. Flora, the redhead, is worried about snakes, or worse. "Remember what happened to little Prim?" She has a shiver and makes a yuck-face. Fauna…
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"Thanks, Doxter." I take the scope and give it a once over, hopefully. I'm definitely remembering the right boil, but measure twice cut once. "Freeze it, sure. Keep it from spreading. Be able to take a look at it later." I give xir a quick look, li…
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"What am I, Stanton, chopped liver? Okay," I start, feeling confident but aware of the shaky ground. I start pointing out structures with a blunt stylus. "Here's the main ganglia, and this tendril here and... here were connections to another node, b…
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[OOC: Assess. Roll+Expertise.] (Rolled: 2d6+1. Rolls: 3, 6. Total: 10)
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I glance at Stanton and Robynne. Think about Raji and Peshkov. I can't smeg this up, not with everyone looking at me. Counting on me. I double-crack my knuckles and dive in with my kit. I feel a bit like that Normal Rockwell dude, looking back and f…
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"Jettison the shit straight into the sun," I mutter. I get my kit set up and dive in to take a look see. I really want to shut this thing down and get atmo back.
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I nod sideways at Robynne. "Sorry, next time we're near to asphyxiate and explosively decompress, I'll send off for an engraved announcement. On vellum. But Mxr. Archbelloch's no slouch at a console." I take a look-see in the oxygenator, no real ti…
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I give a little grin to Robynne's quip. But it's like ha ha only serious. When we get into life support, it's not the utter chaos I feared. "On the bright side, they don't have emergency respirators out." I focus again to slow my breathing. It's to…
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I start talking faster. "I think we found it before we were supposed to. I think it was supposed to get the whole ship and take it over, smooth and easy. I think that we were going to be an example. You know the manifest. Any of these people got ene…
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"We still don't know their intent," I continue. I'm glad for this moment away from the rest. "With enough high-profile targets on board, maybe this was intended to be a kidnap-and-ransom situation."
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I nod in agreement. "We'll need to double- and triple-check everything and make sure there's no roots left anywhere. I don't want us to have to fight this again." If we're out of earshot from engineering, I'll look up and ask Robynne under my breat…
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I carefully do not flinch at the yellow alerts. "Of course the root node is in life support," I say wearily, pissed. But not at Robynne. At whoever is doing this to us. No shit, I think to myself. I start packing up to relocate. "Yes mam, but eithe…
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"Double shit. I can't get there from here any more. Good news is we know where the root node is hiding. Maybe that's the point of insertion." I glance significantly at Robynne, an unspoken question. My frown of concentration deepens and I tap a st…
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[OOC: roll+expertise.] (Rolled: 2d6+1. Rolls: 1, 1. Total: 3)
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No, I'll leave comms repair to the reat of crew. I must focus on taking down the bomb. "Agreed, Robynne. Environmental must stay up; I rather like breathing. Can you clear jumps?" I'm pleased to see xie's already ready at xir console and I don't bot…
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"Aw, shit." I scramble to assess. "It snuck past me, Raji. We're lucky it was just comms and not the whole power regulation subsystem." I want to see how bad it is, contain the surge and minimize collateral damage. "At least we've got the nodes segr…
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[OOC: roll+interface.] (Rolled: 2d6+1. Rolls: 3, 4. Total: 8)
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Time to get my hack on. I crack my knuckles and get into the zone. My aim is to start isolating the nodes so they stop talking to each other, get dumber. I dive into the power reg system.
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Taking a look at Peshkov's list, I consider. Power reg, atmo, navigation, sensors, evac, sublight and jump drive systems. "I figure power, sensors, and navigation are the first to clean. Peshkov?" It's a cheap tactic, to make him feel like he's part…
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I make a sound of impressed fear, mostly like a whistle. The rising tone matches my eyebrows. "That's very slickly done," I say as I point out a data structure. "It's like the code doesn't even realize that it's infected." I glance at the tall TXR …
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[OOC: roll+interface.] (Rolled: 2d6+1. Rolls: 2, 3. Total: 6)
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To Robynne, "Kick its ass before it kicks ours? I can get behind that. Dangerous, though." Which is an understatement. Nobody wants explosions in space. And I'm not sure how it's triggered yet. I'm nodding along, satisfied watching the dumb thing c…
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"Yes," I say absently, shuffling motes and nodes, adding bricks and prebuilt components, adjusting spectra as needed. "Worse yet, there's some true cybernetics as it makes its own organic components." I swallow, concerned. This thing needs to be con…
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"That's weird," I catch Raji's attention, frowning slightly. "Do you know of other anti-IC systems in here? Better not be two humpin' infections here, chasin' each other." I'll send a subroutine to monitor the other threat, but my main concern is sq…
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[OOC: Face Adversity, roll+Interface.] (Rolled: 2d6+1. Rolls: 3, 4. Total: 8)
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I nod a thanks back to Peshkov. I manage, mostly, to not look smug at Raji.
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"Open sesame," I mutter to myself. First things first, slow its growth. Next, inoculate some areas and get an accurate census on the thing. Once that's done, we can start taking it apart systematically. I've got some custom code from my kit of var…
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[OOC: Roll access, roll+interface.] (Rolled: 2d6+1. Rolls: 5, 5. Total: 11)
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They call it a bomb, but it's not, not really. I mean, it can blow up, but then you can kill a guy by beating him to death with a slugthrower pistol, but that's not the same as shooting him with it. Sometimes I get into lecture mode when I'm workin…