[Jaunt] Week 5

[tookashirototheknee]

Hey, guys. Matt Holt here after respawning.

First, can someone kick that fire-bitch for me? She poisoned Pica and killed him. Don't know who she actually is, but she's going around killing people.

Second, I never actually thought I'd get to say this, but... sounds like y'all need a rocket scientist.

My specialty's hacking and communications, so let me know where I can be the most helpful.

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[claudiometer]

...oh hey, the network split's down. Sweet. [Sure, it's only saving them trouble for one week, but it's saving them trouble.]

If you wanna come station-side and help me wreak a little havoc before I bail my overlay out of dodge, I'd super appreciate it. Raidou figures one of the keys to success, or at least success-ish, here is to make sure the faithful audience finds out they've been watching actual people this whole time, but with the half-overlay situation I'm only gonna get one shot.

[razorblade_empress]

I... might be able to do something about that second point, but involves hacking the actor "training" feeds and I don't want to foul up any plans for planetside broadcasts.

[That and she is really uncomfortable with the idea of violating them yet again by broadcasting their misery to a bunch of "fans."]

I'm guessing the cameras down there aren't under Orwell's control anymore? We've got a lot of feed outages up here all of a sudden.

[claudiometer]

I know Raidou was planning to fuck up the station's camera access, not just their control over the tower, so I'm guessing he was successful on that front, yeah.

We could maybe use Thorn's baby, since that happened before the planetside feeds went fucky and 'hey, if these were all actors why would they drop a literal baby into this mess, especially one with a highly visible mutation?' is a good way to get people thinking. Goes double since children are so tightly controlled and there are a lot of people who want a kid.

[Claire is not one of those people, but 'wait, a literal baby' was still enough to get her on-board with tearing this mess down. Claudia's feeling a lot better about doing something to help now, even if she'll only get one shot.]

[razorblade_empress]

They've probably had babies before, though. I mean, if the show's been running for over four centuries... a baby's probably gonna bring in ratings, especially during a disaster.

[God, she hates thinking like this.]

[claudiometer]

It's still a potentially useful data point, alongside everything else.

[razorblade_empress]

True.

It'd help to know if they are planning a broadcast down there. Orwell's got those locked down pretty hard at the moment from what I can tell, but there are ways through that.

[Some of them placed by her, yes, but still.]

[claudiometer]

That there are.

These 'behind the scenes' tours might be a good opening to really fuck up their equipment, as long as we can keep from being body-snatched along the way.

[razorblade_empress]

Yeah, I was thinking along the same lines.

[claudiometer]

And they'll probably never catch Declarification for what it is.

[razorblade_empress]

Probably not.

[claudiometer]

It's a gamble, sure, but I've taken bigger gambles.

[razorblade_empress]

Same, honestly.

So what else do you think needs doing up here?

[She's pretty sure there are still some loose ends, but she's not always that great at spotting them.]

[tookashirototheknee]

I would love to wreak some havoc, especially that kind of havoc.

People need to know how destructive their so-called-fun actually is.

[He's got a few personal opinions on that subject.]

[claudiometer]

That they do.

Orwell's competition would probably be very interested to know exactly what Orwell's doing with the animal DNA they stole, too. I'm less sure I can get that one out there myself, with the half-overlay problem, but hey, you don't technically exist here.

[tookashirototheknee]

Hell, I don't technically exist anymore at home, so a ghost hacking their system sounds perfect.

Probably won't hurt that I just don't give a crap. Exploiting people is just wrong.

[claudiometer]

I'd give fewer fucks if I didn't have an overlay to get out of here in the same configuration of one piece she's currently in, which is gonna mean bailing her out to planetside once I'm done.

[capital_asset]

Her name is Yuri, she's a producer, and she's being dealt with. Which I realize doesn't help Pica, but...

[Raidou's wishing they'd gotten to do that rather sooner now.]

...Actually, I do have a question about communications. The actors are all implanted with communications technology, and I'm not sure I trust Orwell not to use that to harm or even kill them now that their remote access to their killdrones has been cut off. Do you think there's a way to block that sort of thing?

[tookashirototheknee]

Yeah, it doesn't help him, but hopefully wherever he is, he's happier.

[Less said about that, the better.]

Oh, yeah. That should be easy as hell once I get into it. I can't portal, so if someone could come to Liminal Space to get me, I'll take a look.

[helborn]

Look for the raven flying around liminal space - there's no ravens here so I've been having Bob hang back. He can open up a portal for you.

Yeah, that's no problem, kid.

[claudiometer]

If I pick you up for station-side shenanigans, I'll be heading planetside once I'm done.