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tushanshu_logs2014-10-26 03:14 am
highprofilerichkid) wrote in tushanshu_logs2014-10-26 03:14 am
Catch-All | Open
Characters: Tony, Jackie, Hayley, Gene & OPEN!
Date: End of October, early November, before the endplot.
Location: Mostly Stark Industries and Tony's suite; other locations as necessary.
Situation: Tony is trying to pull everything together before the inevitable showdown with Malicant.
Warnings/Rating: None yet, will be added in subject headers as necessary.
Tony is still trying to get the secondary network up and running, and so, as usual, he will be hard at work at Stark Industries - often into the late hours of the night.
After participating in Wan's attempt to possess Asti, he'll need some time to recover, but he'll still be at SI fairly regularly and accessible via console if anyone needs to set up a meeting.
If anyone wants to join in on the network effort, get Tony's help with something, or discuss anything with him before the shit hits the fan, now is the time. He's well aware that things have gotten serious, and he won't turn anyone away.
OOC note: Your character can visit Tony either at SI or his suite in the metal sector. Gene is also spending a lot of time with Tony now, especially after the possession fiasco, so there's a good chance that anyone coming to see Tony would run into Gene too. If you would like Gene to be present in a thread, make a note of it in your subject line. Threads can take place either before or after Wan's possession attempt.
OOC note: If you would like to claim one of the self-defense devices mentioned in Tony's last network post, but don't want to thread it out for whatever reason, drop an OOC note in here.
Date: End of October, early November, before the endplot.
Location: Mostly Stark Industries and Tony's suite; other locations as necessary.
Situation: Tony is trying to pull everything together before the inevitable showdown with Malicant.
Warnings/Rating: None yet, will be added in subject headers as necessary.
Tony is still trying to get the secondary network up and running, and so, as usual, he will be hard at work at Stark Industries - often into the late hours of the night.
After participating in Wan's attempt to possess Asti, he'll need some time to recover, but he'll still be at SI fairly regularly and accessible via console if anyone needs to set up a meeting.
If anyone wants to join in on the network effort, get Tony's help with something, or discuss anything with him before the shit hits the fan, now is the time. He's well aware that things have gotten serious, and he won't turn anyone away.
OOC note: Your character can visit Tony either at SI or his suite in the metal sector. Gene is also spending a lot of time with Tony now, especially after the possession fiasco, so there's a good chance that anyone coming to see Tony would run into Gene too. If you would like Gene to be present in a thread, make a note of it in your subject line. Threads can take place either before or after Wan's possession attempt.
OOC note: If you would like to claim one of the self-defense devices mentioned in Tony's last network post, but don't want to thread it out for whatever reason, drop an OOC note in here.
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Maybe that's not what Cain meant to imply, there, but it gets Tony thinking anyway. He doesn't like thinking it, because he knows that kind of distrust is exactly what Malicant wants, and yet... there the thought is anyway.
He's conflicted, but, in the end, his trusting nature wins out again.]
My deepest darkest secrets have all been spilled already, I think, so I guess I'm safe. [A small, wry smile.] But I'm not sure how everyone else is going to feel about you poking around in their private messages.
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What, do they get an e-mail when someone reads their diary? [ It's not like they're going to know, kid. ] So, are you in or are you out?
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I'm not the only one here with some computer skills. There are a bunch of other people who will notice what you're doing, if they're looking.
The bad guys are the big dude sitting under us and the wackos running around with poison knives. If you think you can dig up some dirt on them, I'm happy to help. But reading everybody's private messages is just going to piss people off.
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That's the idea. Looking for the big bads. See if there's anything more incriminating under the cloak than sexting.
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He nods slowly at Cain.] Okay. I think if there was anything to find in the consoles' programming, someone would have spotted it by now, but I guess it can't hurt to check again.
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Different worlds, different ideologies, right? Maybe you'll get lucky and there's something I recognize, no one else would.
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So he steps inside when Cain gestures for him to enter.] What's your programming experience? [He obviously has a fair amount, since he was able to mess around in the encryptions enough to draw Tony's attention.] We haven't been able to learn a whole lot about the enemy from the consoles because they're some kind of weird biomechanical technology. It's pretty much impossible to mess with the hardware because they melt into gross organic goo if you tamper with them. And the Big Bad has almost complete control of the network.
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I've been dabbling for years. Some formal training, but most of it is just me keeping up with it while tech popularity explodes in my world. Biomechanical? [ That explains a bit. Also makes it much more interesting. ] I noticed the control he has, but... huh. That stuff is usually just sci-fi where I'm from.
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[He shrugs and grins a little.] But I can handle sci-fi. It's the "fantasy" party that's throwing me off. Magic and healing potions and elements and talking skeletons... I feel like I'm in a really weird MMO.
[Or maybe a bunch of different MMOs all thrown haphazardly together, plus a couple tabletops and card games for good measure.]
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Fantasy is just low-tech sci-fi if you think about it. Before people knew to explain things with technology, they explained it with magic. Different generations of the same thing. Man, but imagine if they made all this into an MMO. You think anyone would even play it?
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Tony pulls over an extra chair and flops down into it.]
Are you kidding? This would be a terrible MMO. The resources are way too limited and you can't grind them, there's almost no customization or gear upgrading, no leveling up, the final boss is totally OP, and the server sucks and keeps booting people off. Sounds more like one of those really annoying indie games. You know, the ones that win lots of awards for being confusing and depressing.
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Maybe that's how it would be advertised. Super difficult challenge, ultimate rewards await, are you a bad enough dude to hack in and beat our super impossible boss? And—what's this about shitty servers?
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[Cain's addition to the video game metaphor makes him snort.] Well, so far, the beta kind of sucks.
[The question about the server joke reminds him that the guy is new, and probably doesn't know all the weird details about this place yet.] People disappear sometimes. Whatever pulls us here doesn't always stick, and nobody knows why. It seems totally random. I've heard of people coming back, but mostly they get sent home for good.
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[ Cain leans back in the chair while he listens, foot propped up on the base of the console. He really does look way younger than he is, like some guy just out of college or in extended learning. ]
Huh. Maybe some people just don't do well with living outside of time like this. They should probably fix that. I mean, we won't even have left if we get back home, right?
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That's what they say. I think it's true. I don't know anybody who's gone and come back, but people talk about it. You get stuck back in your own timestream right where you left, without your memories from here, but you remember them when you come back again.