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Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther
Votes are mixed on this one. It seems like the general trend is head downstairs in search of either a ground exit or some kind of sublevel. Runner up is up and out, either from the roof or a convenient window.


Just to confirm, you're going:
A)Up!
B)Down!


[00:00:30:000+/-10:000] remains

Update ETA 7:00 PM EST

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There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Up and out!

Toughy
Nov 29, 2004

KAVODEL! KAVODEL!

A

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


A

AbysmalPeptoBismol
Feb 5, 2016

Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!

A

Grognan
Jan 23, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
A

sheep-dodger
Feb 21, 2013

A

Ralith
Jan 12, 2011

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today
A out the nearest window

CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?
B!

Its a kill zone out in the open, we're not Bat-Man!

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


We've literally got jet engines, we'll just fly away.

Unless those nacelle-looking things in the picture of our wings aren't engines, then we'll have to improvise. Or just glide down to the street and start sprinting.

Hexenritter
May 20, 2001


A: upward!

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

Crazycryodude posted:

We've literally got jet engines, we'll just fly away.

Unless those nacelle-looking things in the picture of our wings aren't engines, then we'll have to improvise. Or just glide down to the street and start sprinting.

Pictures are as close as I can find, but may not be 100% accurate.

Working on update now.

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

You rush back up to the roof and anxiously scan the sky: it's clear, but a cloud of quad drones are closing in, backed up by helicopters. Remaining Metsec is swarming the stairs to the roof. You spread your wings and leap into the dark!


You're gaining altitude, but the response teams have you on thermal. You're going to have to-
PERSONALITY MATRIX 001: DISABLED
PERSONALITY MATRIX 003: ACTIVE



CQC: DISABLED
RANGED: DISABLED
AERIAL: DISABLED
SONAR: DISABLED
EM: DISABLED
IR: DISABLED
AR: DISABLED


...

PERSONALITY MATRIX 003: DISABLED

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther
PERSONALITY MATRIX 002: ACTIVE

...



You awake in... darkness? You bring your hands up to rub your eyes but they're stopped by some kind of hard surface. A helmet?

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther
Suddenly your vision is filled by a loading icon


Shortly after, your vision returns, but something's odd...


What exactly did she do to you?

Have Blue fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Sep 26, 2017

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


God drat it, was that a simulation the entire time or something? Regardless, I'd appreciate if the Boss would stop loving swapping our personalities out at will.

Can we remember anything we did while Personality Matrix 1 was active? What time does our internal clock read, and how does it compare to when we woke up/were at the Met/whatever?

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Have Blue posted:

Suddenly your vision is filled by a loading icon


Shortly after, your vision returns, but something's odd...


What exactly did she do to you?

Maybe we failed and have to run through it again?

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

There Bias Two posted:

Maybe we failed and have to run through it again?

Failed what? The last thing you remember is those *shudder* wires.

CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?
CMD:>/diag -LEVEL3

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

Crazycryodude posted:

God drat it, was that a simulation the entire time or something? Regardless, I'd appreciate if the Boss would stop loving swapping our personalities out at will.

Can we remember anything we did while Personality Matrix 1 was active? What time does our internal clock read, and how does it compare to when we woke up/were at the Met/whatever?

Your internal chrono puts the time at 22:13:85:843, which makes it just about a .. day and a half(?) since you entered the Shard

...

oh, apparently you have an internal chrono now

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Check our map for any markers

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

CourValant posted:

CMD:>/diag -LEVEL3

ACCESS DENIED

Apparently I can't get inside my own head

There Bias Two posted:

Check our map for any markers

You're not sure how to do that. You try thinking "map" and "location", among other things, to no result.

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


Yeah, poo poo. There's fuckery about.

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker
CMD:/>DIR

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Are we hungry?

Check our pockets for anything new.

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


Dance the interpretive dance of confusion and inquiry

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

AJ_Impy posted:

CMD:/>DIR

ACCESS DENIED

Uh, right. My head is apparently a computer now. And I don't have admin.

great


There Bias Two posted:

Are we hungry?

Check our pockets for anything new.


No.

You have:
2 arms (meat?)
2 legs (meat?)
1 head (metal?)
1 set of armor(?)+helmet (Your clothes are thick and stiff, seemingly reinforced with ballistic weave. There's no kind of tab, logo, or label on any of them.)
1 knife (steel, standard)
1000 credits on an anonymous chip
1 copy of Windows 2077, still in its shrink wrap


Crazycryodude posted:

Dance the interpretive dance of confusion and inquiry
You feel your limbs start to twitch, and stop them. Do you have some kind of headware virus?

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

How much is 1000 credits in terms of buying power? Can we afford a safe place to sleep for a few days?

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

There Bias Two posted:

How much is 1000 credits in terms of buying power? Can we afford a safe place to sleep for a few days?

100 is about a days wages for the average prole. You could easily put yourself up in a tube hotel or roach motel for a few days.

Though there is a difference between anonymized credits and normal ones. If you want anything off the grey or black market you'll have to use anon credits, and laundering normal credits, while possible, incurs a steep cut.

Have Blue fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Sep 27, 2017

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Mission complete then. Let's get somewhere safe and see what the big deal with this software is.

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


Y'know, I'm betting Personality 1 is our mission personality, Personality 3 is our debriefing/escape/whatever personality, and Personality 2 is our normal everyday life cover story personality. The Boss keeps them all nice and isolated from each other so that if 1 gets captured, it can't give up any information 3 knows about where the Boss lives or safehouse locations or whatever, and 2 is the perfect cover for 1 and 3 because it's living a completely normal life and won't know about the others' adventures even if it gets mindread or something.

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

Crazycryodude posted:

it gets mindread or something.

Mindreading isn't a thing. Mindripping is. It's technically a crime against humanity, but most with the tech to do it also have the resources to cover up any involvement.

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Have Blue posted:

Mindreading isn't a thing. Mindripping is. It's technically a crime against humanity, but most with the tech to do it also have the resources to cover up any involvement.

Does that destroy the victim's brain in the process?

Have Blue
Mar 27, 2013


Panther Like a Panther

There Bias Two posted:

Does that destroy the victim's brain in the process?

You don't know? It's something that is only ever spoken of in whispers. If you had to hazard a guess it'd involve replacing a lot of brain matter with tailored cerebral implants?

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


Yeah that'd be the "or something." But TL;DR we're some escaped experiment that was designed to be the ultimate deniable asset and has now been hijacked by the shadowy revolutionaries. Or, gently caress it, maybe we're not escaped at all and this is working as intended. All this is on behalf of some hypercorp and we're the baddies, how the hell would we actually know?

E: Anyways, find a lovely hotel to stay the night in.

Crazycryodude fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Sep 27, 2017

CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?

Crazycryodude posted:

Yeah, poo poo. There's fuckery about.

Indeed.

Crazycryodude posted:

Y'know, I'm betting Personality 1 is our mission personality, Personality 3 is our debriefing/escape/whatever personality, and Personality 2 is our normal everyday life cover story personality.

I'm guessing its something like that too. I would go as far as to say Matrix 001 is our fully 'transformed' mode (Battle Mode), Matrix 002 is skirmish mode (Single Weapon), and Matrix 003 is our walking around mode (I'm just a normal person).

Only issue is, we're still wearing our 'gear'.

super sweet best pal posted:

Mission complete then. Let's get somewhere safe and see what the big deal with this software is.

Yes, I think we've buried the lead. Open the box, see what's inside, then find a place to boot up the software.

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


No admin on our own body? Not even diagnostic information available?!

So we're a slave.

Well, poo poo.

What do we look like now?

CourValant
Feb 25, 2016

Do You Remember Love?

dont be mean to me posted:

What do we look like now?

According to this, we look the same (decked out in our helmet and bullet resistant gear):

Have Blue posted:

You have:
2 arms (meat?)
2 legs (meat?)
1 head (metal?)
1 set of armor(?)+helmet (Your clothes are thick and stiff, seemingly reinforced with ballistic weave. There's no kind of tab, logo, or label on any of them.)
1 knife (steel, standard)
1000 credits on an anonymous chip
1 copy of Windows 2077, still in its shrink wrap

You feel your limbs start to twitch, and stop them. Do you have some kind of headware virus?

We're also tweaking out, apparently.

AJ_Impy
Jun 17, 2007

SWORD OF SMATTAS. CAN YOU NOT HEAR A WORLD CRY OUT FOR JUSTICE? WHEN WILL YOU DELIVER IT?
Yam Slacker
CMD:/> DIR ');DROP TABLE ADMIN;--

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dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


CourValant posted:

According to this, we look the same (decked out in our helmet and bullet resistant gear):


We're also tweaking out, apparently.

I meant we lost enough time that we should probably confirm it visually. Mirror again.

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