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(Setting)N3's safehouse [Apiary 8]
| >there rest a man, his back towards the wall, humming an idle tune
"Sunday morning rain is falling~"
>but it soon is silenced with the arrival of a guest
"oh hello, you are here about the strange computer i presume?"
| >A women is indeed standing nearby, with dark green hair and dressed in a long suit
"Yeah, I'm Hazama. Hazama Ino."
>She takes off her hat and does a small curtsy
| >>327290
"such manners.i suppose i must repay in kind no?"
>he bows
"cyrus, cyrus lechance"
>there is a rustic German tinge in his accent, feint but there
"the object in question lies right over there"
>he points over to the terminal
>it lies on a table, rather out of place in the first floor workshop
| >>327300
>The girl approaches it and begins looking at the thing
"...Mind if I use it for a sec? I have a hunch about this thing that I need to confirm."
| >>327316
"Thanks, then with no further ado..."
>She starts typing on the computer, visibly trying to imput some sort of string of code
"Hmmmm... yeah, as I thought, this thing doesn't use the IBN proprietary language, this looks more like some sort of..."
>She turns back to Cyrus
"Got any knowledge on exotic codes? Or have you ever heard of REALITAS programs?"
| >>327321
"yes yes, great ones, and some nonsense about realitas being able to dick around with reality.
Ive even been to the domain of the dregs a while back"
| >>327337
"... Wait, you met one! Curses, now I kinda wish I got on this case earlier, Ahhhh!"
>She seems pretty angry, still typing all sorts of code into the machine
"But I guess you can't read it, too..."
>She's glaring at the PC now
| >>327347
>She pulls out a flash drive, on it are the letters VCR
"I don't know if it'll work, but I know a friend of a friend, they know a lot about this stuff. This here is a basic activation key, it should enable translations... unless this is advanced shit, then even I can't help here."
| >The girl nods and inserts the drive
"Hmmm... oh, there we go, there we go, get the data to flow..."
>She scans the writing on the screen with her eyes
"... This is advanced stuff, but not all of it. The parts I could translate say something about a Great One called LS... there's some link between them and this terminal it seems."
>She clicks her tongue
"Now I kinda wish I had the lilim body here too, see if the same link was there..."
| >>327356
"ooooohhhh.
Ooohhhh....
Noooo.....
If i recall that one enjoys torture.
So that might also be the f.a.l terminal..."
>he sighs
"so the lilim was related..."
| >>327359
"F.A.L terminal? You mean the AUCR project..? How'd you hear about this."
>She puts the drive back into her pocket and turns to face you, suspicion on her face
| >She looks at you again, from top to bottom, before smiling
"Then I guess we're somewhat the same, I can only commend your research."
>She wipes a tear
"Failure of Life, that's what F.A.L means, and as the name implies, they are the most... well, good things to have around. The business in the flooded was people trying to use one of them to bring back a genocidal Great One, KS. I think this one was meant to do something similar for this LS guy..."
| >>327381
"not the best idea considering how big mondo in the computer likes to act.
So we are armed with the knowledge that a crazy super AI is locked in that terminal, an the lilim from that dudes shelter is related...
Of course non of this is proven yet..."
| >>327384
"I wouldn't say he's trapped... more like linked. Basically, this is a gate to his domain or something. If we had a VCR dive module, or any other REALITAS compatible dive module, we could probably access his domain from it..."
>Hazama sighs
"Used to have a VCR HX-01, but I lost it, still hate myself for that."
| >>327386
"out of the many things i can miraculously pull out of my butt.
I have nothing for this.
...
The lilim.
Wanna see if bunker dude can sell me that to?"
| >>327388
"Hm... I guess... but even then, I doubt it'd have that much info... no wait, lilims can be backed into the collective source, right?"
>She goes pale
"The original plan to revive KS involved spreading a nanovirus around GC, couldn't you upload something similar to the Collective Source to target all Lilims?"
>She looks back to the F.A.L
"This could be just me overthinking it... but the risk is real."
| >>327391
"a risk people like me prefer not to take...
It would be wise to weigh ones options.....hmm..
If we were to do so, what would happen?"
| >>327393
"Well, I think the best way to stop it would be to dispose of the terminal, frankly... but who knows how much info it actually contains. And for all I know, that LS could be a really nice guy."
>She looks around
"Frankly, what we really need to do is get the lilim, and check for any foul play, by which I mean, any virus having been slipped in their backup data. If we're lucky, there will be no such thing... if it does exist though, we'd need to hack the CS and delete it."
| >>327417
"Yeah, I'll keep probing this thing here in the meanwhile."
>Hazama keeps typing on the terminal relentlessly
|
| >some drones deliver the lilim in question
"voila"
| >some drones deliver the lilim in question
"voila"
| >>332679
>Hazama turns to face it
"You work quick, now if only everyone I usually work with were this fast..."
>She begins inspecting the Lilim
"Unfortunately, I'm no master on Lilims. I can do a basic check, but I doubt it'll amount to much besides that."
| >>332803
>Hazama nods and pulls back, all the while looking around the room
"Well, tell me when you're done."
| >>332813
>one while later
"yeah i have no clue what i got."
>he hands over a hard drive
"it was lodged into the thing"
| >>332822
>Hazama takes the drive and checks it all over
"...Dunno, but this might be the Memory Drive, which one is the question..."
>She looks around
"Got a terminal I could hook this to?"
| >>332824
"come with me"
>he leads you to a room on the second floor
>low and behold there are some terminals there
| >>332840
>Hazama whistles, checking the place out
"This safehouse of yours is pretty convenient."
>She sits down at a terminal, booting it up and plugging the HDD in
"This might take a bit."
| >>332843
"yeahhhh it took forever to build secretly though"
>tea sip
"ill leace ya to it, imma see if i can get the lilim running or something.
Intercoms to your left incase you need to page me"
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| (alright, properly this time)
>lying inside neon one of many safehouses rests, hidden in plain sight
>the interior is...calming to say the least,the silent whir of the machinery and idle chatter of passerby
>the sobering, dry atmosphere of the building is...rather homey in a way