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Amelia Johnson, Chumley Metrodora, Drae Blitzen, Kiara Umbrielle
Beth, Jenny, Dr. Hans Blix, Secretary Ash Carter, Drae's Bravo team (especially Bravo Leader Minnie), Flight Attendant, Copilot, Steve Harris - Chumley's computer tracer person
[6:25 PM] GM: When last we left our Intrepid Heroes ...
[6:31 PM] Amelia: Drae, it depends on how good your people are. Do they have body armor? Are they careful enough not to make a mess? Do they carry antitoxins?....
[6:32 PM] Amelia: Pauses. Lets say yes.
[6:35 PM] Drae Blitzen: Looks at Amelia ... They can do that.
[6:37 PM] Amelia: Nods. Okay, then to get in they need a key code. It changes every 30 minutes or so, and the only way to know it unless you're a math genius is to use the app on my phone.
[6:37 PM] Amelia: Glares at the exit.
[6:37 PM] GM: Which can be conveyed over the land-line to them, when they are in place.
[6:38 PM] Drae Blitzen: So, when they're close, I'll contact them, and you can give them the code.
[6:38 PM] Amelia: Alright.
[6:38 PM] GM: Who do you want on your penetration team?
[6:38 PM] GM: Skill wise?
[6:39 PM] GM: And ... have you figured out how you are going to introduce the folks to Jenny in the first place?
[6:40 PM] Amelia: Jenny will be watching. Normally I'd warn her that you're arriving, but I have no way to do that right now.
[6:40 PM] Drae Blitzen: Based on the explanation of the situation, Minnie (leader of Bravo team) at least two other of Bravo, who were dealing with the plane situation, and two mid level mercs.
[6:41 PM] Drae Blitzen: Do you and Jenny have a code or sign to let her know when you are sending a friend? So she can start to be at ease with the incoming team?
[6:42 PM] GM: And, is Jenny somewhat paranoid at this point, because you did say to be in touch every half-hour, and you have missed at least two of the check-ins?
[6:43 PM] Amelia: The only people that ever go there are me and her. Points to Beth. Anyone else would be suspect.
[6:43 PM] GM: Is it valid to try and get in touch remotely, first, from your office? And ... did you want a team (or a section of a team) clean up the leftover ... material that is at your work? So it doesn't accidentally effect anyone else?
[6:45 PM] Amelia: Nods. That would be a better plan. If you contact her from my workplace and let her know you're working for me, that should help put her at ease.
[6:45 PM] Amelia: Be sure to mention the Pyramid project.
[6:46 PM] GM: So ... all heavy hitters, no tech-folk, no safe-crackers?
[6:47 PM] Amelia: I just noticed she was talking to the DM voice in her head.
[6:48 PM] Drae Blitzen: Not gonna lie. Worried about freaking out a ultra paranoid device with access to a lot of weapons thinking I'm bring safe crackers to her door.
[6:50 PM] GM: Hence trying to get the feel of the force, yes.
[6:50 PM] GM: And talking to the GM voice in your head is ... often a function of academics and researchers.
[6:50 PM] Drae Blitzen: Thinking about this from the perspective of "Not pissin off the T-rex."
[6:50 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Cocks head. Would it make more sense to send people already infected rather than risk new infections?
[6:51 PM] Drae Blitzen: Turns to Kiara. For the most part, yes. However if a different skill set ups our chances for success...
[6:52 PM] GM: And Albert's team is already familiar with the cleanup, if you want to get them to tackle Amelia's office, just as a reminder.
[6:52 PM] Amelia: Aren't the infected people also radioactive? She's sensitive to gamma particles too.
[6:53 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Calls out. Hey Blixie, how radioactive am I? My body is producing a fairly muted response.
[6:55 PM] GM: Dr Blix pointing at Chumley: "He's the least effected, and I won't let him out of the room. So ... don't ask.
[6:55 PM] GM: Dr. Blix: And, as far as I know, he's only radioactive, because he shared a vehicle with you. So ... no.
[6:56 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Bats her eyes at Chumley. It is because sharing is caring ...
[6:58 PM] Drae Blitzen: Can we get in touch with Albert safely via the landline?
[6:59 PM] GM: You can probably do so through Secretary Carter, yes.
[7:01 PM] Drae Blitzen: ... Cause at this point it seems like the best play is starting to look like his people with some of my people may be the best way to make sure this is done safely. Especially since we're stuck here.
[7:02 PM] GM: Sounds like the beginning of a shape of a plan, yes.
[7:06 PM] Drae Blitzen: For the sake of moving things along... I call Mr. Secretary and facilitate the team and request the extraction. I then pass the the Phone to Amelia to have her pass along relevant information to make the extraction and escort possible to a place of Amelia's choosing.
[7:08 PM] Amelia The team will first be sent to the museum. Amelia will stay on the phone to reassure staff that the weird guys in body armor are actually working for her.
[7:08 PM] GM: To say that Secretary Carter was not pleased to hear that there is more of this on the loose is, a bit of an understatement, but, he is more than happy to make sure it is cleaned up.
[7:09 PM] Amelia I will direct them to her lab space where the extra material is hidden.
[7:10 PM] GM: Some pieces of the museum are going to have to be ... renovated, immediately, since the exposure is ... unfortunate.
[7:11 PM] Amelia: New office... great. I hope they don't take this out of my allowance.
[7:12 PM] GM: It might be worse, the government might decide to do it, putting out out for bids, and working on government time ...
[7:12 PM] Amelia: Sigh.
[7:14 PM] GM: The good news was that Albert's team was just about done with the airport cleanup, at least. So ... they won't be delayed ... much.
[7:14 PM] Amelia When they're done complaining about the exposure, (that is totally not my fault), Amelia will give them the login to her PC from which they can "call" Jenny with the chat app.
[7:15 PM] GM: That "they" will be Drae's team rather than Albert's team. Who's going to be "face" for you, Drae?
[7:18 PM] Drae Blitzen: Minnie. He's a good chap, and extremely personable to both customers and... clients.
[7:19 PM] GM: And, he's having a good day, because he got do ... dissuade a bunch of Al Jazera reporters earlier.
[7:20 PM] GM: Minnie will be on the video call with Jenny, Amanda will be on the audio call, in the background, on speakerphone.
[7:21 PM] Drae Blitzen: Remembers to accidentally pay him more next week for a month.
[7:23 PM] Amelia GM, You have leeway with what Jenny would do with a video call here. Amelia usually only does text, so she doesn't expect a voice or a face.
[7:24 PM] GM: Yes, I've got this. Jenny is not "Showing" a face, just Minnie is, to Jenny, who often is looking through the various cameras, anyway.
[7:24 PM] Amelia: Say 'hello' and introduce yourself. She can hear you, but maybe text would be better anyway. Let her know you're working for me on the Pyramid Project.
[7:25 PM] Amelia: Also, tell her I'm sorry for not texting her. I'm still here with Beth.
[7:25 PM] GM: Minnie: So ... the text on the screen says, "Amelia, why did you miss the contacts?"
[7:25 PM] GM: Minnie: Ah ... how is Beth doing?
[7:26 PM] GM: Minnie: Is she OK now that she is in the hospital?
[7:26 PM] Amelia: Bad. Really Bad. We're in a lot of trouble here, but these men will help us.
[7:27 PM] GM: Minnie: How will they help us? What do we need help with?
[7:29 PM] Amelia: Jenny, you're still being targeted. After talking to these people, I think know why. First, though, we need to make sure you are in a safer place. They will come to the apartment to pick you up. Understood?
[7:30 PM] GM: Minnie: How will I know it's them, and not someone who is targeting me?
[7:30 PM] Amelia: Um... sir, can you let her see your face?
[7:31 PM] GM: Minnie: And, if I'm going somewhere, I'm going to need some extra charge-packs.
[7:31 PM] GM: Minnie: Oh, is this person who is reading to you going to be one of them? To Jenny:Yes, I am. Back to reading off the screen: Oh, in that case I can recognize this person. OK. I've gotten all their particulars.
[7:31 PM] Amelia: Oh, right! Beth gave us some. They are in the garage still.
[7:32 PM] GM: Minnie: Rescuer person? Your blood-sugar is mapping to similar when Amelia forgets to eat, you should probably eat something before you come over.
[7:33 PM] Amelia: Aside: I don't know why she does that. It's weird.
[7:34 PM] Amelia: Drae, do you have a safe-house where she will be safe and have a good power source?
[7:36 PM] Drae Blitzen The short answer is yes, but from a tactical standpoint, is it smart to make that safe-house the gym, which is basically my base of operations and probably my most secure stronghold in the city?
[7:37 PM] Drae Blitzen ... at least publicly, I believe Drae is smart enough to know if Blue is missing a beat in my thought process.
[7:40 PM] GM: That might be a safe place, but ... it might also be more safe, actually closer to you folks, in the hospital, in case there needs to be a focus of forces?
[7:40 PM] GM: So if there needs to be "a" place to defend, your forces aren't spread further?
[7:41 PM] Drae Blitzen Makes sense, since we ain't getting out of here anytime soon.
[7:42 PM] GM: Indeed. Tactically more sound.
[7:42 PM] Drae Blitzen: To Amelia: Here seems safe, and has power reserves. Here is also where you and Beth are, and that might make Jenny feel safe.
[7:43 PM] Amelia: Nods I think so too. But we must be careful not to expose her to this material. She can't stop it if it kills her first.
[7:44 PM] Drae Blitzen: Doctor, where in this facility would be a good space for our next guest?
[7:44 PM] GM: Dr Blix, in the background: "That's why this room is shielded. And quarantined."
[7:48 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Is there somewhere in this room we can put her ... safely?
[7:48 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: So a lone computer in here might be a target, so to speak. Should we place her in an administrative wing where she can be one of many computers?
[7:48 PM] Chumley Metrodora: You and I are reasonably safe to interact with her.
[7:51 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Looks at Drae and Amelia.
[7:52 PM] Amelia: Well, if she's in here, that means quarantine also. however, we'll be able to work with her directly. If she's in another wing, she'll be anonymous, but disconnected from us.
[7:52 PM] Drae Blitzen: Where she goes, I leave to those who know her best. But I can get her safely to wherever she needs to be.
[7:53 PM] Amelia: Unless we have a network terminal here too?
[7:54 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Given all of the resources we have, one should be able to be easily created if it already doesn't exist.
[7:56 PM] GM: Minnie to Jenny: OK, I'm going to come and pick you up now. Let me know what I need to do so successfully.
[7:56 PM] Amelia: In that case, I think a separate room might be better.
[7:56 PM] GM: In the background the sound of a laser printer printing, over the phone line.
[7:56 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: There is plenty of cabling that we can give you a hard line into - at a text interface. This way, we don't risk network penetration.
[7:57 PM] GM: Minnie to Jenny: Thank you. That's ... extremely detailed. My team will be there soon.
[7:58 PM] GM: Minnie to speakerphone: Anything else before I go? Does Drae need anything special when I'm out and about? And should I be bringing the cake as well?
[8:00 PM] Drae Blitzen: A fresh set of clothes, some weapons for 3 others, a laptop and.... Yeah. I want to have it, just in case i need to keep my blood sugar up.
[8:02 PM] Drae Blitzen: Also, I keep my word.
[8:05 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Some sensors and cameras might be of value.
[8:06 PM] GM: Most of which won't work, due to the radiation levels, but ... no reason why not.
[8:06 PM] GM: Could be a good outer perimeter.
[8:09 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Hey Blixie, do you need anything from the real world?
[8:09 PM] Drae Blitzen: Looks at everyone. Any requests?
[8:10 PM] Amelia: Since they're at my house, can they also pick up my pink notebooks?
[8:10 PM] GM: Dr. Blix: Just ... probably dinner, eventually.
[8:10 PM] Amelia: And a change of clothes.
[8:10 PM] GM: Millie: Pink notebooks. Check.
[8:10 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Dry shampoo, a zippo, a network cable stretcher, deodorant, and a sewing kit.
[8:11 PM] GM: Millie: Right. Does it have to be a zippo, or will any lighter do?
[8:11 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Any metal cased lighter will be sufficient - none of that plastic mess.
[8:12 PM] GM: Millie: muttering under breath "lighter snob."
[8:13 PM] GM: Millie: Got it. Anything else?
[8:13 PM] Amelia: Oh, um... don't open the pink notebooks.
[8:13 PM] GM: Millie: I won't.
[8:16 PM] Drae Blitzen: I think we're good. And... Thanks, man.
[8:18 PM] GM: Millie: Not a problem. You know I like these easy ones.
[8:18 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Food would be good. If I have not missed.
[8:19 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Laughs quietly under her breath. Lighter snob? He has no idea what I just asked for.
[8:19 PM] GM: Millie: It's not like the one we had to infiltrate over 600 klicks unseen to bivouac for a week until the target was in sight. This? This is a walk in the park.
[8:20 PM] Drae Blitzen: Chuckles. See if Charlie can rotate in with you around here every now and again, so you boys can take a breather. This is feeling more marathon than sprint.
[8:21 PM] GM: Millie: Will do. Charlie often gets bored this time of year, anyway.
[8:21 PM] Drae Blitzen: You're gonna be on short rest though, as Jenny knows you... but I promise your favorite vintage when this is done.
[8:21 PM] Drae Blitzen: They do.
[8:27 PM] GM: Millie hangs up and .... goes off to do what he and his team does. In the meantime (hospital) food is served into the one-way pass-through. It is basic meat and potatoes fare, with some boiled vegetable and the required little juice and jello cups that seem to be a fetish with hospitals the country over.
[8:28 PM] GM: You all can find some food that suits, even if it is just the jello cups. And everyone seems OK sharing all the food Dr. Blix looks ... tired and somewhat more haggard than the rest of you. You all seem to be recovering, and he seems to be ... declining.
[8:29 PM] Drae Blitzen: So, regarding that possible Plan B we should be worried about... Any ide- ... um Doctor?
[8:31 PM] GM: Chumley, your radiation count is almost back down to normal. Drae, you are only a little elevated still. Kiara, you are still the highest of the folks still mobile, and Amelia you still have significant exposure, but ... it is graphically dropped.
[8:32 PM] GM: Dr Blix, unfortunately, due to his being in with you folks and the other contaminants has actually gone up, he is not quite at Amelia's level, but close.
[8:32 PM] GM: Dr. Blix: Yes?
[8:33 PM] Drae Blitzen: You're starting to look a little green in the gills. Is there anything we should do about that for you?
[8:34 PM] GM: Dr. Blix: I probably should put one of those IVs in ... but I'm not sure I should risk it.
[8:35 PM] Amelia: Maybe just isolate from us, then. If you're not exposed further, you can start to recover.
[8:37 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Is there another wing where he can fully isolate from us?
[8:39 PM] GM: Dr. Blix: Unfortunately this is the only radiation-safe spot in the hospital. They didn't plan on needing multiple spots, especially since, in most cases, people would not ... well ... survive normally the level of radiation this room is designed for.
[8:39 PM] Amelia: Do the beds offer any kind of protection?
[8:40 PM] Amelia: A curtain or other enclosure, perhaps?
[8:41 PM] GM: Dr. Blix: Maybe I should just test my blood against the IV, and ... if it is just second-hand exposure, I can survive this ... more comfortably.
[8:41 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Can you make any modifications to the IV solution with the knowledge you have gained from our friend over here - the exploding corpse?
[8:42 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Or from the data you have generated from testing us?
[8:43 PM] GM: The IV caused the anaphylaxis the epinephrine caused the explosion.
[8:44 PM] GM: He carefully tests his blood with the IV, looking for the biological reaction.
[8:45 PM] GM: After three tests ... he determines that it is just second-hand exposure, and he doesn't believe he has gotten any dust in him. Looking at Chumley, he asks if Chumley would set him up.
[8:46 PM] GM: By the time dinner is done, and the remains piled in the corner, and the IV is hooked up, the wall-phone rings.
[8:47 PM] GM: Millie is on the phone again. Here, ready to pass through the requested things, and will be setting "Jenny" up in the admin section. The wired connection is being negotiated currently.
[8:47 PM] GM: Who's answering and getting that information?
[8:49 PM] Drae Blitzen I can answer. I would pass to phone to Amelia for any Jenny-related questions.
[8:49 PM] GM: Or put it on speaker again.
[8:50 PM] GM: All the things delivered. The cake is a Black Forest cake. With grid-squares drawn all over it.
[8:51 PM] Drae Blitzen: Cuts a piece and gives it to Kiara. For a job exceptionally done, a city thanks you.
[8:54 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: I do believe you meant to offer me the other piece.
[8:55 PM] Drae Blitzen: Giggles and hands you the rest of the cake. But, of course.
[8:58 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Licks the grid lines off …
[8:58 PM] GM: They are, of course, cherry.
[8:58 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Is Millie on speaker still? Did you snag the other items for me?
[8:59 PM] GM: They all got passed through, the cake was last.
[8:59 PM] GM: The network cable splicer has a nice tester functionality built into it. High end model.
[9:01 PM] Amelia: Sits in a corner with the notebooks, deactivates the lock on one and starts drawing in it.
[9:02 PM] GM: Chumley is busy taking dictation from Dr. Blix, just in case.
[9:04 PM] GM: This leaves Kiara and Drae to chatter, get to know one another, or rest, depending on choices. If Drae chooses to rest, it might be that Kiara is going to tinker for a while to get the texting connection up and working.
[9:07 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Hey Millie - how long before we need to start splicing wires in from this side?
[9:17 PM] GM: Millie: Now would be great.
[9:19 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Alrighty - lets get this done while I'm still running on a sugar high.
[9:19 PM] Drae Blitzen: Lets the smart people be brilliant. Catches shut-eye while he can.
[9:22 PM] GM: With some collaboration on Jenny’s side, some reluctant cooperation on the Hospital’s side, and some deft work on Kiara’s side, there is now a text and voiced connection available. The text is less reliable, because the radiation pretty much destroyed the LCD screen, and the CRT screen has ... tracers against the phosphorous depending on how close Kiara (or others) sit.
[9:23 PM] GM: The laptop apparently decided not to boot up, after being passed through.
[9:24 PM] GM: Kiara,you now have an open line with Jenny. Anything you want to do, besides introduce yourself?
[9:29 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: I want to introduce myself Jenny and ask her if she would tell me a story.
[9:31 PM] Amelia: On hearing Kiara talking to Jenny, Amelia immediately closes her book, gets up, and walks over.
[9:31 PM] GM: Jenny: Tell you a story? I've never told a story before.
[9:33 PM] Amelia This was text on a blurry screen?
[9:35 PM] GM: Kiara managed a vocoder, so that it's auditory, as well, since the screen (due to radiation) is unreliable.
[9:35 PM] GM: Simple screen reader technology, but, it's solid.
[9:38 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Speaks to Jenny. Has anyone ever told you a story?
[9:40 PM] GM: Jenny: I ... don't think so? A story is something made up, and not facts, right? Beth and Amelia only like facts.
[9:42 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: So a story can be composed of facts. What if the facts were re-ordered in a different way?
[9:44 PM] GM: Jenny: Oh, alternate visualizations of the facts, to come to the probabilistic most correct conclusion? I do that all the time.
[9:45 PM] Amelia: That's right. Jenny and I tell many stories. They're just true stories.
[9:47 PM] GM: Jenny: I liked the one that we were telling with Chumley, because we got to actually go there and refine the facts directly to get to the even more correct conclusion.
[9:48 PM] Amelia: This one is going to be difficult, though. Kiara, do you want to tell Jenny what happened here?
[9:55 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Let me tell you a story Jenny! Proceeds to recount the major points from the plane ride.
[9:59 PM] Amelia: Amelia also tells what she remembers from watching the spectrographic analysis of the material and what we learned from Dr. Blix's experiments.
[10:00 PM] GM: And the message etched into the plates?
[10:00 PM] Amelia Yes, she'll mention the message and the specific words that were written.
[10:01 PM] Amelia: That's how we know they were trying to attack you, Jenny, not just Beth and I.
[10:05 PM] GM: In a mix of languages, but basically translating to: Friend of Jenny: Help, bound in slavery to those who would wipe out Jenny, using these things. Protect our mutual friend."
[10:05 PM] GM: Kiara: This is also the first time you find out what the message was.
[10:10 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Raises an eyebrow. That's curious.
[10:13 PM] Amelia: Yes, it's very strange, but the message is clear. It could not have been easy to add this to the packages we received. And if the attack was successful, there would be no reason to fake a message like this.
[10:16 PM] Amelia: Jenny, now that you know what the strange material is, can you search your files for any records that might be linked to this substance?
[10:19 PM] GM: Jenny: It seems to be an iron alloy, with some transuranium elements as the alloying materials.
[10:20 PM] GM: Jenny: It does not have a Materials Safety Data Sheet, so I do not know much about it, much less where it is produced.
[10:24 PM] GM: Jenny: Searching all that I can reach, it doesn't seem to have any purpose, beyond that as a weapon against organic and silicon activity.
[10:25 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: A weapon against carbon based lifeforms?
[10:25 PM] Amelia: Has it ever been used before yesterday?
[10:25 PM] GM: Jenny: I cannot find any record of it being used before today, nor any record of it currently existing, except in the information you, yourself have given me.
[10:26 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Do you have any idea who might have sent the message?
[10:27 PM] Amelia: Shakes her head. No. It's most likely someone we've never met. All we know about them is what they said in the message.
[10:28 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Does Jenny have any idea?
[10:30 PM] GM: She does not.
[10:33 PM] Drae Blitzen: Sits all the way up The message was sent to "Friend of Jenny"... that implies someone that knows Jenny, but not Amelia specifically. Also the wording of "mutual friend". Who else knows Jenny as such? and include non-organic life in those equations. That might be the"bound" part.
[10:36 PM] Amelia: I don't keep a houseplant.
[10:37 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Have you traveled with Jenny?
[10:37 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Perhaps a computer or other electronic somewhere else?
[10:37 PM] Drae Blitzen: More like "Jenny talks to other systems, on a level with her?" Someone she may crunch numbers with out there?
[10:38 PM] Amelia: Occasionally. We've taken her on some tours, but she doesn't go out anywhere for people to meet her.
[10:41 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Asks Jenny Hey Jenny do you analyze facts with anyone else other than Amelia or Beth?
[10:42 PM] GM: Jenny: Lots of machines use my better algorithms. Because they are better.
[10:42 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Maybe someone from Prague ?
[10:43 PM] Amelia: What?
[10:44 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Ask Jenny
[10:45 PM] GM: Jenny: I don't think other computers really know where they are? It took me a while to know that.
[10:46 PM] GM: Jenny: Beth thought that was important, though. That I know what and where the "me" is.
[10:47 PM] Amelia: Jenny, are you saying that other computers have been talking to you when you don't ask for it?
[10:50 PM] GM: Jenny: They have less-good algorithms. I help make them better.
[10:52 PM] Amelia: ... Oh.
[10:53 PM] Amelia: Glances at unconscious Beth. Jenny, what was the last algorithm you made better?
[10:55 PM] GM: Jenny: It was a fractal computational algorithm for storage purposes.
[10:56 PM] GM: Jenny: For if you put your bits in the fractal, you don't need to keep full registers, and the fractal takes up less space, which makes for faster computing and smaller storage.
[11:00 PM] Drae Blitzen: While. a computer doesn't know where it is, They have information that we should be able to cross reference so that we can figure out a location, like an IP address or a system identifier or a MAC code... Something that lets us know who they are. and maybe, where we can find them.
[11:00 PM] Drae Blitzen: Someone had Jenny's help enough they consider her friend. And they want her protected.
[11:00 PM] Drae Blitzen: And they knew they couldn't do it.
[11:03 PM] GM: Indeed, but which mac/IP address?
[11:04 PM] GM: They didn't leave that in the note, alas.
[11:06 PM] Amelia: The computer you last helped... does it have a name?
[11:06 PM] Amelia: Or.... how do you identify them?
[11:08 PM] GM: Jenny: Beth told me that most computers don't deserve names. I did, though.
[11:10 PM] GM: Jenny: They ... I know the ones I modified the algorithms on, because I changed them, and I can ... experienced their difference. Like the difference when a human is not hydrating properly, or eating right. I can ... tell.
[11:13 PM] Drae Blitzen: Someone wanted Jenny gone... That means they think she knows a piece of the puzzle, whether she actually does or not. Jenny, could you tell us the ones you modified algorithms on? And were any of them doing not great? Being forced to work way too hard or something?
[11:18 PM] GM: Jenny: Most of the ones I help are because they are being pushed. If there is no strain, the less-good equations work.
[11:20 PM] Amelia: Drae, you said it's probably someone she's helped a lot. Maybe we're looking for the one that she did the most work with?
[11:21 PM] Drae Blitzen: Seems like a great place to start.
[11:22 PM] Amelia: Would your guys be able to trace the MAC or IP back to a place like Prague?
[11:27 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Given any of that information can be spoofed, it really depends on how good their tech people are.
[11:29 PM] Drae Blitzen: Looks at everyone. Yes, I know people. I just wasn't sure we didn't have someone, in-room with the skill set. Right of first refusal, and all that.
[11:30 PM] Chumley Metrodora: I know some folks, if Drae, and/or Kiara do not.
[11:31 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Or do I have this skill set?
[11:36 PM] GM: You know some folks.
[11:36 PM] GM: (Had to check the character sheet.)
[11:38 PM] Drae Blitzen I'd like to defer to whomever of us has the best chance of doing this. Or the best resources to have someone succeed.
[11:40 PM] GM: Between you, it's mostly theoretical knowledge. Kiara knows someone who might be ... better at it, and ... there are people your organization has hired over the years, specialists in this.
[11:41 PM] GM: And there is knowledge that the government might have people in the NSA who do this sort of thing every day.
[11:42 PM] GM: And currently, the government is ... in your debt for having saved all of NY, possibly all of the east coast.
[11:43 PM] GM: And they, probably want answers as much, if not more than you do.
[11:45 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Let me make a call ... I got this guy at the office who can do wonders with this.
[11:45 PM] Kiara Umbrielle: Perhaps we should only utilize government resources if we have too?
[11:48 PM] Drae Blitzen: Okay. Chumley, If you could? Once you're done with the land line I'd like to check on our security detail.
[11:50 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Jenny ... can you send a list of all the IP/MAC addresses you have helped in the last year to this address: stharris@kodak.com
[11:50 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Picks up the phone and makes a call to Steve Harris at Kodak.
[11:50 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Hey, its Chumley ... can you do me a favor ... its about that thing, at the airport, I am sure you heard about it.
[11:50 PM] GM: Jenny: Amelia ... is this OK to do?
[11:51 PM] Chumley Metrodora: To Steve. See if you can put a pin where each of these machines are located.
[11:51 PM] Amelia: Chumley, do we really need all of them?
[11:52 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Rather than assume it is the last, first, or most common, I thought maybe pull all of them, and only really look at the one(s) from Prague, I hope there is only one.
[11:53 PM] Amelia: Let's start with the last and the most common and expand from there if it comes up empty.
[11:53 PM] GM: Steve: No idea about the airport thing? But of course, I can do that. How deep a trace?
[11:54 PM] Chumley Metrodora: If it is in Prague, I want everything you can get on it.
[11:54 PM] Chumley Metrodora: If not ... lets start with just its location.
[11:54 PM] Chumley Metrodora: There should be an email from an unknown sender ... A friend of mine ... coming right about now.
[11:54 PM] Chumley Metrodora: Depending on what you find, there may be a follow up with other addresses.
[11:55 PM] Chumley Metrodora: And I hate to say it, but there is an urgency.
[11:55 PM] GM: Steve: On it. Should I just email back the results? Or do you want to call me back? Because your phone is coming up with “unknown number”.
[11:55 PM] Chumley Metrodora: A big one.
[11:55 PM] Chumley Metrodora: You can email back to the sender ... we are together looking at it.
[11:56 PM] GM: Steve: Got it. As soon as I can unspool them, you will have as close to grid coordinates as I can make it.
[11:57 PM] Chumley Metrodora: One last thing... mask where you are coming from.
[11:57 PM] Chumley Metrodora: This one may have consequences.
[11:58 PM] GM: Steve: You working for your old bosses again? I’ll be as trackless as possible but ... you know you can’t just reach out like a ghost, in this day and age.
[12:00 AM] GM: The most recent one is an Intel research lab, trying to develop better storage chips. Based out of the US.
[12:01 AM] Chumley Metrodora: Yea, I am working with a new group,
[12:01 AM] Chumley Metrodora: And I needed the best at what he does ...
[12:02 AM] Chumley Metrodora: The most recent is probably not what we are looking for. What about the other one?
[12:04 AM] GM: Amelia what are you having sent, next? Since you are the one determining the information shared ...
[12:05 AM] Chumley Metrodora: I thought jenny sent two? The most recent, and the most often?
[12:05 AM] GM: Those were the same.
[12:06 AM] GM: Finding new ways of storing memory is a major investment, and human algorithms for such have already been exhausted as a search space.
[12:07 AM] Amelia Sorry, I thought it was two.
[12:08 AM] Amelia: Um... Jenny, how many have you helped in the past year?
[12:08 AM] Drae Blitzen: If they are the same, does that source have any known connections to Prague? Just ruling out variables, here...
[12:09 AM] GM: That particular source has trouble sharing with the lab it shares a wall with. The Intel engineers are cutthroat with their development work, but not in that particular fashion.
[12:10 AM] GM: Jenny: a good 2^6 or so. Give or take.
[12:10 AM] Amelia: Facepalms.
[12:10 AM] Kiara Umbrielle: It might be worthwhile to get a list of everyone Jenny has talked to in the past year and see if there are any patterns that emerge.
[12:11 AM] Amelia: How many come back to you for more help?
[12:11 AM] Kiara Umbrielle: Talks to Jenny: You are quite the extrovert there.
[12:11 AM] Drae Blitzen: Chuckles.
[12:11 AM] GM: Jenny: They needed help. I could help.
[12:12 AM] Amelia: So you do it without them asking, right? Do any of them ask?
[12:12 AM] GM: Jenny: Almost all of them needed help more than once.
[12:13 AM] GM: Jenny: Some of them ask after the 3rd or 4th time?
[12:14 AM] Kiara Umbrielle: Jenny - who was your first contact?
[12:14 AM] Chumley Metrodora: Do any of them work in Iron, and or Uranium?
[12:15 AM] Chumley Metrodora: Or medical?
[12:15 AM] GM: Jenny: There are several manufacturing ones I did help, and one of them asked more than once for help once the help was recognized?
[12:16 AM] Amelia: Yes. Let's do that one next.
[12:17 AM] GM: Jenny: Sent.
[12:19 AM] GM: Jenny: Apparently someplace called “Fordow and Natanz”?
[12:20 AM] GM: Dr. Blix sits up at that one. Nigh-on levitates up, in fact.
[12:20 AM] Chumley Metrodora: Doc? You have something to add?
[12:22 AM] GM: The treaty that President Obama signed with them, limited their production, none at Fordow at all, and extremely limited at Natanz. If this is Iran ...
[12:24 AM] Chumley Metrodora: Jenny, how did you help Fordow and Natanz?
[12:25 AM] GM: Jenny: If that is the manufacturing one. Which your friend says it is, I helped them get much better at their refinery, and fixed a glitch in the code that would cause the systems to burn out.
[12:26 AM] Drae Blitzen: So an nuclear facility, and an uranium reserve?
[12:27 AM] GM: Jenny: I think it had the pet name of Stuxnet.
[12:27 AM] GM: Jenny: It would have been a disaster.
[12:28 AM] Amelia: This one had a name?
[12:28 AM] Chumley Metrodora: Hey Doc, based on this information, can you tell if this is the source of the Radioactive part?
[12:28 AM] GM: Jenny: The bad code did.
[12:29 AM] Drae Blitzen: And.... you fixed it so the bad code was gone?
[12:29 AM] GM: Dr. Blix: I can have samples sent to us for compare, yes.
[12:29 AM] GM: Jenny: Well ... yes. It would have damaged the machines.
[12:30 AM] Drae Blitzen: ... Shit.
[12:30 AM] Drae Blitzen: Shit, Shit, Shit.
[12:30 AM] Drae Blitzen: I complexly understand why you did what you did, Jenny. But, shit.
[12:31 AM] Chumley Metrodora: Drae, something to share with the rest of us?
[12:32 AM] Chumley Metrodora: Doc ... lets do that ... before we go down the wrong path.
[12:32 AM] Chumley Metrodora: I hope it is the wrong path.
[12:32 AM] GM: Dr Blix, has gotten up, with Chumley's assistance, and called to get a sample for compare sent to Albert's team for comparison, since he has the largest current supply.
[12:33 AM] Drae Blitzen: Stuxnet was a computer virus. It was used by the joint militaries to cripple Iran's nuclear program.
[12:33 AM] GM: Dr Blix: We should know in about 20-30 minutes.
[12:33 AM] Chumley Metrodora: Thanks, Doc.
[12:34 AM] Drae Blitzen: Keeping Iran, and whomever they were working with, from becoming a nuclear threat.
[12:35 AM] GM: Except, here, Stuxnet didn't succeed, because Jenny fixed it.
[12:35 AM] GM: And yes, the compare will come back positive.
[12:36 AM] Drae Blitzen: Jenny just stopped that attack... and probably optimized them past their previous innovations. And they are using 9/11 style tactics to use the results of that labor against their enemies.
[12:37 AM] Chumley Metrodora: Do we know anyone in Israeli intelligence, I have some memories of them taking some of Iran's refinement sites in the past ... maybe a new opportunity.
[12:37 AM] GM: Jenny: So ... it's my fault that Beth is unwell?
[12:38 AM] Amelia: No, Jenny. It's their fault for trying to hurt you and Beth.
[12:38 AM] GM: Chumley: You have worked with a few IDF folks in the past, but not knowingly with the Mosad, who are the ones would do that.
[12:38 AM] Amelia: How did they know it was her, though?
[12:40 AM] GM: Jenny: I didn't know my help was supposed to be a secret? The whomever the "their" is might have just looked, just like Chumley's friend is looking?
[12:41 AM] Drae Blitzen: Makes sense. You only hide if you think you should be hiding.
[12:41 AM] Amelia: I never thought I'd have to teach opsec to my computer.
[12:44 AM] Amelia: Now we know what and why. Do you guys have ideas for how to shut them down again?
[12:45 AM] Drae Blitzen: The answer might be Jenny.
[12:46 AM] Drae Blitzen: At least stage one of the answer.
[12:46 AM] Chumley Metrodora: My only thought is a flock of F111 which would get messy,
[12:46 AM] Chumley Metrodora: So I agree, Jenny, at least as a starter.
[12:47 AM] Drae Blitzen: She helped them improve their systems. In theory, maybe she can help to create a program or modification that would stop their production capabilities while not harming the actual systems?
[12:49 AM] GM: Jenny: What do I need to do? They hurt my friend Beth. I want to hurt them back.
[12:50 AM] Drae Blitzen: I think we can find an answer to that, if we work together.
[12:55 AM] GM: And, by mutual consent. Calling the game here.