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Starstuff Session 5

Nov 23rd, 2014
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  1. [21:05] <~FloRad> ----Session 5----
  2. [21:06] <~FloRad> The crew is still in the lab after the incident. Hal is surrounded by scientists and Jim has passed out from his alcohol consumption. Rose and Dima are coordinating a relief effort and a group of researchers has brough the strange and alien cube to a different place.
  3. [21:07] <Arazona> "Well that was certanly different"
  4. [21:08] <Hal> "Well? Any Idéa whats going on here?" Hal says, quite annoyed, while looking around at the scientists.
  5. [21:10] <~FloRad> "This is absolutely fascinating. Let's get this guy to the scanner!" Hal is shoved into a full-body scanner. After a few seconds, the scientists start to mumble to each other excitedly.
  6. [21:10] <Arazona> "Congrats Hal, your a discovery"
  7. [21:12] <Hal> "Culture dictates that you should never punch someone with glasses. Why do all scientists have glasses?" Hal mumbles to himself.
  8. [21:12] <Arazona> "Simple, We like to look at things too closely"
  9. [21:13] <~FloRad> "Mister Schmit, you might want to see this!" One of the researchers waves Arazona over. Milona on the other hand is given chair to sit down on and an armed bodyguard for the time beign
  10. [21:13] <~FloRad> *being
  11. [21:14] * Arazona goes to the scientist.
  12. [21:14] <Hal> "So... should I just stand here?"
  13. [21:15] <~FloRad> "Yes yes, just don't move."
  14. [21:16] <~FloRad> From the various graphs and raw data, Arazona can see that Hal is now completly coated with a layer of nanites which emit weak, but stable life signs.
  15. [21:16] <Arazona> "Huh"
  16. [21:17] <Arazona> "Guess what, Hal you're covered in tiny living robots."
  17. [21:22] <Hal> "is it dangeorus in any way?"
  18. [21:23] <~FloRad> The nanites seem to be conent with doing nothing. They're not interefering with Hal's circuits or anything, just covering all the exposed areas.
  19. [21:24] <Arazona> "Not really, They're just playing tic tac toe on your chassis"
  20. [21:25] <Milona> Milona followes listening to everything that's said  with ears standing on end.
  21. [21:27] <Hal> "Well, that's reasuring to hear at least."
  22. [21:28] <~FloRad> A group of researchers in hazmat suits are taking samples of the goo that Hal has spread over one of the walls.
  23. [21:35] <~FloRad> Rose walks up to Arazona and Hal "You guys done soon? We have an appointment."
  24. [21:35] <Arazona> "Science is happening."
  25. [21:36] <Arazona> "Of course, i'm an engineer"
  26. [21:36] * Arazona points to the other scientists.
  27. [21:36] <Arazona> "Record EVERYTHING"
  28. [21:37] <Arazona> "Shall  we be off?"
  29. [21:37] <Hal> "Should I also follow or stay here to get this thing removed from me?"
  30. [21:38] <~FloRad> One of the scientists waves Hal off "We have all the data we can get from you. You're free to go."
  31. [21:41] <~FloRad> "I don't think we can get it off and it doesn't seem to do anything."
  32. [21:42] * Hal nods and corrects his hat. "Then please do me a favor and try to find a way to get it of me." He turns around and follows the others
  33. [21:44] <~FloRad> Rose leads to Hal, Arazona and Milona back to the elevator and presses the topmost button
  34. [21:47] <Arazona> "Well today certanly has been eventful"
  35. [21:48] <Hal> "Let's hope it gets less so from now on." Hal says while still inspecting his body for signs of goopiness.
  36. [21:50] <~FloRad> Hal's body doesn't show any signs of tampering. Without a really thorough analysis, nobody would even know something is off. Meanwhile, the elevator flies upwards at breakneck speeds. Rose pinches the bridge of her nose and sigh.
  37. [21:51] <Hal> "Anything wrong, Miss Rose?"
  38. [21:52] <~FloRad> "Yeah, a lot of things actually. First Jim gets drunk and then some aline artifact runs rampant in the lab I'm tasked with securing. I'll never hear the end of this."
  39. [21:54] <Hal> "I'm sorry to hear that. Anything we can do to help?"
  40. [21:55] <~FloRad> "How about not letting loose a wierd robot in my work area? No offence."
  41. [21:57] <Hal> "Non taken. But I don't think that our fault. It seems just brining the two objects togeather is what awakened this robot. And if memory serves it was your idéa to bring our box here. Just sayin..."
  42. [21:58] <Arazona> "Lets not split hairs. It would have happened anyways, and thankfully we were able to stop a major incident from happening."
  43. [21:58] <~FloRad> "I know I know. Wasn't my idea thought. I just take the orders from higher up and do the deed. I think you know how that works."
  44. [21:59] <~FloRad> The elevator stops and opens to a corridor, with a simple desk at the end. At the desk sits a female Kesi in a military-esque uniform. "Ah, miss Marshall and company I assume? The colonel is waiting for you. I recommend choosing your words carefully."
  45. [22:02] <Hal> "If it makes you feel any better, You can blame Jim" Hal whispers to Rose as the they walk over.
  46. [22:04] <~FloRad> Rose leads the party past the door to an door "Right, let's do this!" She opens the door and walks in. Inside is a sparcly decorated office with a simple metal desk, a couch, a locker and two crossed longswords hanging behind the desk on the wall. At the desk sits a male Jenkra in the same uniform as the Kesi outside. He doesn't look up and just says "Please, take a seat" while pointing at some chairs in front of his desk.
  47. [22:05] <Hal>  /sit
  48. [22:05] * Arazona /sit
  49. [22:08] <Milona> Milona sits
  50. [22:09] * Hal romoves hat and places in lap, revieling unconfortable boldness.
  51. [22:10] <~FloRad> Rosalyn sits down as well. The jenkra puts his paperwork away and looks up, showing a toothy smile "Right then, I assume none of you, save for miss Marshall here, know why you're here?"
  52. [22:12] <Milona> "I could warrant a guess but I'm not sure it would be right" Milona says in a friendly tone.
  53. [22:12] <Arazona> "Things happend. most likely things you or the people you represent dont like."
  54. [22:12] <Arazona> "And we just so happen to be the guys with the stuff related to those things."
  55. [22:13] <Hal> Hal just listens silent
  56. [22:15] <~FloRad> "You're on the right track, but that's not the point. The point is, you're now involved something that is bigger than you or me. Call it a consipracy if you want, but that's not really describing it properly."
  57. [22:17] <~FloRad> "We're waging a secret war against one of the biggest coorporations out there, ladies and gentlemen and you have just been conscripted."
  58. [22:17] <Arazona> "So is this a consumer revolt or a Hostile takeover?"
  59. [22:19] <~FloRad> "We're trying to prevent a hostile takeover, so to speak."
  60. [22:20] <~FloRad> The jenkra gets up and walks over to a holographic projector. "Let's start from scratch. 20 years ago and on a small colony called Bellemonte to be precise."
  61. [22:22] <~FloRad> "The PanDo did a good job covering up what is today known as the Bellemonte Massacre. Two ships landed on the spaceport and it's crew, all of the exclusivly jenkra murdered every single individual living on Bellemonte. Then thousand dead, only threehundred survivors. It was an ethnic cleansing."
  62. [22:25] <~FloRad> He looks at the group, gauging their reactions"
  63. [22:25] <Hal> "Excuse my interuption, but how is it ethnic cleansing if both belonged to the same race?"
  64. [22:28] <~FloRad> "Ha! Good question! You see, we Jenkra live in one of seven tribes. Currently the tribes are split into two factions at a ratio fo three to four. The smaller group are seperatists who want to completly reform our system, the others want to keep it. We've been locked in a silent civil war for over one hundred years. The Bellemonte massacre was the most open display of this war to date."
  65. [22:29] <Milona> Milona seems a bit sick but also slightly intrested.
  66. [22:30] * Hal simply nods, content with the awnser.
  67. [22:32] <~FloRad> The projector shows a map of the Jenkra home cluster, pointing out the star systems controlled by what faction "Now, this is where it gets interessting. Have any of you heard the name Sirius-Arc before?"
  68. [22:33] <Hal> " me shakex head
  69. [22:35] <Hal> Strike that ^
  70. [22:36] <Arazona> "Gonna venture a guess"
  71. [22:36] <Arazona> "SA was sponsering the attack."
  72. [22:37] <Hal> "Of course, thats common knowledge."
  73. [22:38] <Milona> "Yea I have heard of them. Don't know much about them though." Milona answers with a shrug.
  74. [22:40] <~FloRad> "No, they weren't. We have no definite connection yet, but we know that at roughly the same time, they started to outsource their mining fleet and put an emphasis on exploration vessels. Not much of a big deal, but they also signed a huge contract with Edge Security, a Jenkra private military company and are now their biggest partner. Here's the twist; Edge was suspected to have supplied the attack on Bellemonte, but there never was any definitive proof."
  75. [22:41] <~FloRad> "Also, at the same time, the first of the artifacts was found in an illegal mine somehwere in the Greyfall Badlands."
  76. [22:43] <~FloRad> "Now, they've layed low for a long time, until they found another artifact. The same one you brought in today."
  77. [22:47] <Hal> "Forgive my rudeness, but while this is very interesting and all, how does it involve us? We're just here to make some quick money."
  78. [22:50] <Milona> "It means that we have pissed of one of the biggest corpotations in he universe. And now it's either to go off on our own or to help... I'm actually not sure what your 'faction' are called." She adresses the last part at the Jenkra.
  79. [22:52] <~FloRad> "It's easy. You've become a target for Sirius Arc. For them, you all are just disposable couriers. We can offer you protection, at a price. You help us, we help you, it's that simple. And we do have a name. For the time being we call ourselves the Atlas Foundation, or AF for short."
  80. [22:52] <Arazona> "Awesome. Do we get uniforms?"
  81. [22:54] <~FloRad> "No, but you can buy your own if you want. In any case we'd have a job to offer to you, to proove yourselves usefull."
  82. [22:54] <Hal> "How do they know who we are? We never gave out our ideteties when we joined up with Lady Mil.''
  83. [22:55] <Milona> "I'm pretty sure they know everything about each one of us" Milona says giving Rosalyn a look.
  84. [22:56] <Arazona> "Easy, facial recognition software, and i'm sure you have a barcode or an RFID chip in you somewhere with your designation."
  85. [22:56] <~FloRad> "We know who you are and Sirius probably does too."
  86. [22:57] <Hal> "So suddenly we've been drafted to war huh? My owner is not gonna be happy about this when he sobers up..."
  87. [22:58] <~FloRad> "I can only give you the details if you agree on this job. It shouldn't be too hard."
  88. [22:59] <Milona> "We could just keep him drunk. I'm sure we would be better off." Milona says with mischievous smile. "And I guess we don't have much choice, do we?"
  89. [23:01] <Hal> "If we want to keep Jim drunk, al we need to do is keep giving him money. But yes, I agree that we should take the Job."
  90. [23:02] <Arazona> "I choose life. Therefor i choose job."
  91. [23:04] <~FloRad> "Good! Right then. The job is simple. Break into a servercenter and modify some of their data. That should help us get more direct access to Sirius's internal communications."
  92. [23:05] <Hal> "Simple is not the same as easy. How much resistance can we count on?"
  93. [23:06] <Milona> "And how hard would the data storage be to acces?"
  94. [23:08] <~FloRad> The projector shows a huge glass pyramid now, surounded by other skyscrapers. "Not sure, but you intel suggest you're dealing with a standard security force there, small arms, bulletproof vests, maybe small automatic weapons. The datastorage is a different deal. You need to physically access their backup servers and insert our code there. Then we'll attempt an intrusion from outside and force a hard reset. The system should then automatically load the data from the backup servers."
  95. [23:11] <Milona> "I'm fairly skilled at forcing data entry. Wouldn't there be a way to acces it more remotly?"
  96. [23:12] <Hal> "Bulletproof vests huh? Nothing a little fisting can't resolve." Hal says with a grin.
  97. [23:13] <Milona> Milona gives Hal a raised eyebrow.
  98. [23:14] <~FloRad> "A hacking attack will lead the main servers to load the backup data to revert any damage and it will automatically change all the encryption keys. We can't access the backups remotly, which is why we need you." He points to the top of one of the skyscrapers. "Miss Marshall will provide overwatch and sniper support. You will access the servercenter undercover. We need to keep silent not to raise any suspicion. We have a plan B in case things get hairy though."
  99. [23:15] <Hal> "So, this will be a stealth mission then? Afrais thats not my strong suite. I was built for frontline combat, and little else."
  100. [23:16] <Arazona> "Is there any place nearby to hole up before and after words? Like a safehouse?"
  101. [23:17] <~FloRad> "I have authorized access to our armory and you will be provided with the necessary equipment. On success you will be extraced by car and brought to an underground safehouse we have established."
  102. [23:18] <Arazona> "awesome, Though i suggest that after we get to the general locale, that we spend a day to get everything set up. Dont want to execute if nothing is its proper place."
  103. [23:18] <~FloRad> "We have a dropship on standby for plan B though. In that case you will have to make your way to the roof and defend your position until extraction."
  104. [23:19] <~FloRad> The jenkra nods to Arazona "Agreed. I will relay the proper coordinates and contacts to you. Prepare yourselves as best as you can."
  105. [23:22] * Hal nods. "this sounds simple enough to understand. Anything else we should know about?"
  106. [23:23] <Arazona> "Wear some facial protection."
  107. [23:24] <Arazona> "dual function of protecting your idententy as well as protecting your face."
  108. [23:28] <~FloRad> "You'll be given full reigns over how you conduct the mission, but please keep in mind that we'd rather keep this on a low profile. Are there any questions?"
  109. [23:29] <Hal> "Non"   Hal says and puts on his hat.
  110. [23:30] <Arazona> "We'll figure it out and if we need more intel we'll call."
  111. [23:32] <Milona> "I can't think of anything right now."
  112. [23:32] <~FloRad> The Jenkra sits back down at his table "Miss Marshall, you can take over. We'll talk about the lab later." Rosalyn looks very uncomfortable "Yes, sir." She gets up and quickly leaves the office. "I'll wait outside."
  113. [23:36] <Hal> Hal get up, takes of his hat and bows to the lizardman, the puts it back on and follows rose out.
  114. [23:40] <Milona> Milona get's up and does a polite curtesy and heads out the door.
  115. [23:43] <~FloRad> Rosalyn waits outside "Right I'll show you the armory now. You'll love it Hal."
  116. [23:43] * Arazona gets up and leaves, while adjusting his glasses
  117. [23:43] <Hal> "I'm sure I will."
  118. [23:46] <~FloRad> She walks past the secretary and back to the elevator. "Right. We have access to supressed weapons, camo gear and various other gagets that you will find usefull."
  119. [23:50] <Milona> Milona follows her inside.
  120. [23:54] <~FloRad> ----Session End----
  121. [23:54] <~FloRad> For getting kneedeep into some serious Illuminati style shit, the group recives 1 XP
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