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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Jan 17, 2023 0:15:51 GMT
"Humph... Mask and body armour can obscure gender. Five-five is short for males in the family... Unless you go back to Dworkin. Unless they're a lot younger and haven't finished growing yet."
Cody sizes up Brian. "Do you have a little brother?"
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Post by Brian on Jan 17, 2023 1:39:28 GMT
"No" I say "And if he knew what we knew....wouldn't he be hear?"
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Jan 17, 2023 1:45:07 GMT
"Well, the answer is behind one of these doors.
Cody chooses the second door on the left and attempts to fling it open.
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Post by Brian on Jan 17, 2023 1:47:36 GMT
And you both exit the simulation where some one has been...pulling apart the compartment of bio brains.....and some how has them all functional and...alive? if you can call them alive
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Jan 17, 2023 2:04:15 GMT
"Mmmmmmm... Head cheese." Cody jokes.
"Better call Gene and Jessup. They'll know how to keep this viable while we hunt down Mr. X."
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Post by Brian on Jan 17, 2023 2:45:44 GMT
You hear a voice over the speakers in the arcade:
"I could help you," the Simulcrum Brand says "But then you would be found out."
You get a sense that he's saying this to you in the way the mysterious Bio-Hacker would take as being to him. As you make your way through the pods of bio brains that are all doing viable. You see the target. He's had to move out a cube 3x3x3 brains. The target is dead center in the middle. The short hacker is working with intricate tools. "My family gave up everything to make you." The young boy says. "The technology we created to build you made us wealthy.....we've been ruined for 100 years now. But If I get you....I can rebuild it all."
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Jan 17, 2023 3:15:22 GMT
Cody calls his crewmates and directs them to the hall of doors with the AI now helping them.
To Brian, "He's made a mess, but I don't think he's hurt or killed anyone yet. Let's be gentle with him."
Approaching Mr. X with his palms raised in a non-threatening manner, "Hey, sport. I'm Cody and this is my friend Brian. What are you up to? Maybe we can help without damaging the Station AI and crashing the life support."
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Post by Brian on Jan 17, 2023 3:26:31 GMT
The boy looks at Cody and Brian
"I set this up so I would isolate this sector of the Station AI from the rest." He puffs up his chest. " I just need to get the brain at the center of the arcade, He has over a century of telepathic simulation data. He even has the data of the person who hired my Great Great Grandfather to make the technology that the back bone of this station is made on. If I get this....I can get my family's wealth back."
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Jan 17, 2023 3:50:04 GMT
"I don't know... There's a lot of personal data in there. Wouldn't want it to fall into the wrong hands. It's kind of an iffy situation."
"Don't get me wrong. I don't mind helping you, but I just want to make sure we don't hurt anyone else in the process. You understand that, right?"
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Post by Brian on Jan 17, 2023 4:14:59 GMT
"I don't know... There's a lot of personal data in there. Wouldn't want it to fall into the wrong hands. It's kind of an iffy situation."
"Don't get me wrong. I don't mind helping you, but I just want to make sure we don't hurt anyone else in the process. You understand that, right?" The young man looks at Cody
"The brain is all I have.....our technology was stolen from our family in the end....." The boy breaks down in tears.
"You are pretty smart about how this works." Brian speaks softly. "You've not blown any of this up. Thats pretty exceptional."
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Jan 17, 2023 4:42:19 GMT
Jessup and Gene come into the room and are stunned to see Mr. X doing brain surgery. Cody motions them to stand back and wait.
"You obviously have a really good handle on the tech. So, what you are saying is that you need the data to prove that the tech was stolen? We can definitely help you do that."
"There's a few obstacles in the way. Not least of which is the AI itself. It's afraid that you are going to kill it."
"If you don't mind me asking, what's your name, anyway. Since I've told you mine. And these two are Jessup and Gene. Gene's our wonk. She can help you."
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Post by Brian on Jan 17, 2023 5:02:03 GMT
"Brigantī, Able Brigantī" The boy mutters.
"I can remove the box once I disconnect the others. I have a power feed I can plug it into. It will take me some time to pipe in other information feeds to it."
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Jan 17, 2023 6:15:12 GMT
Eugenia is visibility excited, "Briganti-Psi-Enterprises?! When we're done I'm getting your autograph. Alright Doctor Able, let's get back to work."
"Well, I guess the rest of us will run interference in case the authorities are less sympathetic."
Cody fills Jessup in on what's happened.
Using their ship's encoded channel, Jessup relays the information to the crew mates that stayed behind at the bank to help mop things up there.
Jessup finishes by saying, "Keep it cool. The Banker and the authorities can't be trusted at this point. Tell 'em the whole Arcade is booby-trapped and that it's not safe to enter. The boys are in a fire fight with the robbers and have them pinned down but it will take a while before it's safe. Finish up at the bank quickly then get back to the ship. Then bring us a class-d container and a couple of bottles of goo."
Jessup tells Able, "We've got a Flux Freighter in the docks. We can get you to greenside and deliver you to Trans Galactica Interstellar Court and arrange council."
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Post by Brian on Jan 18, 2023 1:39:31 GMT
The kid spends time advising your crew on how to safely pull the brains surrounding the central brain apart. Accessing the central brain.
Brian turns to Cody for a moment "So.....how did you end up putting a good crew together?"
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Jan 18, 2023 3:21:26 GMT
"I guess you could say that I got lucky, but... They are my creche-mates. We were born into the same nursery and raised together. We're basically family with different biological parents."
"But, now that I know about Amber and Shadows. I'm pretty sure M-unit created or manipulated the Shadow. She wanted to spoil me without me getting spoiled... If that makes any sense."
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