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05-12-2014 , 01:05 PM

#101

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*ssshhhk* ...runn... *ssshhhk* ...anato.... *ssshhhk* Embo wakes from a dream to the sound of static on an old fashioned speaker system interjected by a woman's voice. The speech patterns aren't recognized and by process of elimination he realizes it must be the only person in the complex whose voice he's never heard; the stranger from the desert. Ah, here it is. Embo pulls an antique communication device, known in its day as a 'wakee,' from a shelf of similar keepsakes and listens closely to the crackling.

"There, she used the same prepositional... do you really need proof more than this?" Embo frowns, deep in thought. "No... I guess I don't." Tom nods, satisfied. "It's simple enough, she's here to disable our defenses and let in vits." Still frowning, Embo gives the impression of concession. "Yeah, I'll have a word with her now. Let's find out what she's up to and I'll start translating her language or code or whatever it is."

Embo knocks just as the lights are being dimmed for night. The 'prisoner' inside makes a sound he recognizes, a prepositional derivative. It must mean 'enter.' He does, bowing informally to the young woman. Her skin is dark with sun but her brown eyes sparkle with desert water and as Embo enters she sits back down almost haughtily, indicating for him to take a seat as well. He does. "Igla dat handar?" she asks. Embo's understanding of her language is not complete enough yet to translate. He shrugs and she points to the water glasses on a shelf nearby. "No, I don't drink water." he replies softly, suddenly sensing deception from her body language. She's very wary of me. Good. Embo starts the language lesson as covertly as he can.

It is still Night. If you agreed to a trade you may now make that trade. CC me all trades. Do not send more than 1 PM at night. When all trades pending are complete, day will begin again.

Last edited by Guild; 05-12-2014 at 01:07 PM. Reason: XXX ERR

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05-12-2014 , 03:08 PM

#102

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Embo eventually determines the woman's language totally new to his records. How a new language could have evolved so quickly since the vits arrived, no clue. "What make family die?" Embo points to the sink again, for some reason the girl associates it with the word for death, just one more puzzling thing about her difficult language. "Embo dakk, heta death family asha etoun. Sky bandit." Her word for sky, etymologically, seemed tied to heaven or perhaps goodness, which confused Embo for a moment. Contextually, she was claiming angels killed her tribe, more or less, or perhaps God, but she wasn't mad about it? Or she was? Adding sardonic remarks to this conversation would make it even more exasperating. He decides to take a break, let the girl sleep and see how the engineers are handling the power outage. "Death this talking, now work." She frowns, then nods, finally understanding. Embo wonders what he literally said to her. It probably sounded threatening. Oh well, she wasn't permitted to leave the cell and during this visit he'd placed a recording device under her table. If she tried again to communicate with anyone he'd have a much better signal than the solid state rust bucket that was the wakee.

It is still Night. If you agreed to a trade you may now make that trade. CC me all trades. Do not send more than 1 PM at night. When all trades pending are complete, day will begin again.

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05-12-2014 , 06:54 PM

#103

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During day, negotiate information trades. Negotiations are now open for trading tonight. Tonight begins XXX ERROR DATA DELETED XXX. Do not trade data before night falls. Data is traded via PM CC'd to me.

Successful trades last night: zdye724 <> dc-ohio

Rules of the day:

DEFCOM STATUS - HIGH ALERT: Spending red chaff is now authorized. To spend red chaff, say #, where # is the amount of red chaff to spend, up to the full amount banked. This does not delay day's end like normal.

Special circumstances - battle confusion: Spending red chaff corrupts the data pool at a TRIPLE rate.

0 chaff currently unbanked.
Bank: 0

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05-12-2014 , 07:18 PM

#104

zdye724

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Welp

I probably should have sent some bogus lines to dcohio but I'm a terrible liar

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05-12-2014 , 07:19 PM

#105

zdye724

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Just a wild stab at something

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05-12-2014 , 07:19 PM

#106

jh1711

No freakin title????????

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Originally Posted by iamnotawerewolf

Let's trade some, man. I can give you two-to-one (in your favor, of course). What do you say?

No deal until I confirm, of course. Please ensure to specify how many you will be trading to me.

I didn't manage to post during the last day. Days are a little shorter than I expected and the timing is pretty bad for me. But 1 am SOD is better than 3:30 am

If you're still interested, here's what I got:

I would trade you 2 of my LOCs (not yet shown to anybody) for any four of yours (doesn't matter how many times you shared them).

OR:

3 of mine (1 shown, 1 received, 1 my eyes only) for the four.

you can confirm either of the offers and the trade is on. If you want to negotiate, we'll have to hope that I can be around.

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05-12-2014 , 07:20 PM

#107

jh1711

No freakin title????????

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Originally Posted by zdye724

Just a wild stab at something

I think that's a good stab; but I don't know for whom.

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05-12-2014 , 07:36 PM

#108

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Engineering seems slow. Several techs are lounging or playing cards but there's a nervous air to the room, as if everyone is on edge. When he walks in, Embo is approached by Shawn Guiles, department chief of engineering.

"Embo! Glad you could make it! Come this way, yeah?" The man's thickly British accented tone is typically jubilant in the midst of chaos and panic.

They make a bit of small talk before Guiles stops at a power relay. "This relay is part of the inlet that was tampered with. In fact, it's the only relay we had to disable to take the inlet offline."

Embo scans the circuitry, finding no unauthorized fingerprints or DNA samples. "It's pretty clean. Looks like everyone's touched this thing this month."

"Yeah, I went over the maintenance logs. Whoever planned this out must have known..." Guiles wipes his brow with a dirty blue corduroy jumpsuit sleeve.

"An inside job? That's the most disturbing thing I've ever heard."

The two men stand in silence for a moment, then Embo speaks again. "I'm working on a theory. I think we foiled some kind of plan here, but I don't think it's over yet. If you find out anything else, wire it to Tom. He's trustworthy."

Guiles nods and his sunny smile returns. "Good news is it's BBQ night!" Guiles, notoriously fond of BBQ sauce and pork, makes Embo laugh at the older man's excitement.

"You should try quantum mechanics sometime!" They both laugh as they part ways and the tense mood in engineering notably wanes, light chatter springing up as the door cycles closed behind him and he makes his way to DEFCOM.

Last edited by Guild; 05-12-2014 at 07:39 PM. Reason: XXX ERROR DATA DELsssh kshhhssskk ** *

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05-12-2014 , 07:37 PM

#109

zdye724

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Bank

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05-12-2014 , 07:40 PM

#110

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05-12-2014 , 07:42 PM

#111

zdye724

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05-12-2014 , 07:52 PM

#112

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05-12-2014 , 10:01 PM

#113

jh1711

No freakin title????????

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Who tried to hack me?

Fess up!

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05-12-2014 , 11:35 PM

#114

MFFNike

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Mmm, I want to spend some chaff.

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05-12-2014 , 11:36 PM

#115

MFFNike

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05-12-2014 , 11:48 PM

#116

zdye724

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Originally Posted by jh1711

Who tried to hack me?

Fess up!

Wasn't me. I might have corrupted data banking earlier but I don't see how it would have affected you...

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05-13-2014 , 12:26 AM

#117

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It is now Night. If you agreed to a trade you may now make that trade. CC me all trades. Do not send more than 1 PM at night. When all trades pending are complete, day will begin again.

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05-13-2014 , 12:44 AM

#118

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During day, negotiate information trades. Negotiations are now open for trading tonight. Tonight begins when the bank overloads. Do not trade data before night falls. Data is traded via PM CC'd to me.

Successful trades last night: NONE - The data pool has gained corruption.

Rules of the day:

BATTLE STATIONS - LOC posted to the thread will be confirmed corrupt, altered or clean at nightfall.

Chaff accumulates at 1/2 speed.

0 chaff currently unbanked.
Bank: 0

Last edited by Guild; 05-13-2014 at 12:45 AM. Reason: XXX ERROR DATA DELETED XXX

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05-13-2014 , 02:09 AM

#119

iamnotawerewolf

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05-13-2014 , 02:11 AM

#120

iamnotawerewolf

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Originally Posted by jh1711

I didn't manage to post during the last day. Days are a little shorter than I expected and the timing is pretty bad for me. But 1 am SOD is better than 3:30 am

If you're still interested, here's what I've got:

I would trade you 2 of my LOCs (not yet shown to anybody) for any four of yours (doesn't matter how many times you shared them).

OR:

3 of mine (1 shown, 1 received, 1 my eyes only) for the four.

you can confirm either of the offers and the trade is on. If you want to negotiate, we'll have to hope that I can be around.

I'll take 2 of your unseen Lines and give you 4 of any of mine. This is a fresh offer which I will only honor if you express acceptance today.

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05-13-2014 , 02:12 AM

#121

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05-13-2014 , 02:20 AM

#122

iamnotawerewolf

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bank

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05-13-2014 , 02:28 AM

#123

iamnotawerewolf

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05-13-2014 , 02:45 AM

#124

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05-13-2014 , 03:01 AM

#125

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