In the between sessions, which is taking a long time to get back on track, I decided to run an impromptu game via Google+ Huddle.
Impromptu in that he wasn't expecting to play in a play-by-post game *at all*.
The hacker, Haze, (my co-gm and best friend) gets a vr message from an old colleague. He's in deep shit with a group of explorers he "liberated" data from.He can't trust anyone with with the data....especially him! He needs help hiding out, and as Haze has nearly shaken off his past identity. He promises a cut of the action if he survives to release the data en masse.
Seven hours passed. In game and out. At this point he did not respond to the hook above.
Haze's muse was unable to find his friend, D33p-6 on the mesh. All of his haunts are deleted and traces of him are fragmented at best. Haze receives an encrypted message.
Another three hours pass (in and out of game, with no response), and Haze's mesh hotspots are suffering from unknown disruptions.
Suddenly, one of his swarmbots drops to the ground. His personal network has exercised emergency protocols and disconnected him from the mesh, crew, and everything and everyone.
As he frantically runs massive antiviral software, and announcement over the ships coms.
"We're looking for Haze. He has something of ours. Failure to relinquish the in-tact article we seek or Haze himself will cause unnecessary violence."
12 more hours pass, and the Krik's utility morphs are reported as "rogue occupied".
Haze finally manages to jack out from his latest pirated Hypr0n (aka HyperPorn to the 11337erates) and finally begins to assess the situation. He knows D33p-6 and his data are the kind of trouble he should avoid. He also knows he's a shameless attention whore and quickly realizes there is no fighting his nature. Haze old school hacks and attaches himself to the cockpit. He also advises, over the P.A. that it would be a good call for Krik to shut down the rogue morphs and ignore the bounty request.
He traces the signal to the com array, but he's locked out. The signal is identified as being commonly used in manual labor pods.
Haze interferes with the signal, and funnels the feeds into a VR model. He studies it, and regains control of the morphs and the ship. He also is able to scan for the source of the signal to a small outpost near a newly discovered Pandora gate near Europa. It's an investigation he's becoming very anxious about.
They hit base near the gate, and Haze starts to pick up on the local com chatter. As he starts mining or data, he discovers that a cyborg named Leo runs the show there. Reports of having double dealers drawn and quartered are....numerous. And graphic.
They dock and get a cold greeting from Leo, who does not trifle with Haze's slightly dodgy demeanor and foot and mouth syndrome.
As they walk down a crowded corridor, a worker pod morph bumps into them. The stranger points with his eyes that he placed a data chip in his hand and walks off nonchalantly.
Haze digs for info on the morph, to discover that it is registered to a local construction company, with no known activity outside of work zones. The chip is filled mainly with data about the Gate, and geological and geo-data on the moon on the other side of it. Also upon it is the gift of a pass-code for superuser access to the gate site.
"Haze, many Bothans died to obtain this information. D33p-6"
Haze devised a plan to have himself and Krik re-sleeve into some worker pods and take a look around. He sends his muse to scour the mesh for info on the company and the gate in general.
The muse dug up data for a constrution company called Moresan, which has the tiniest connection to a company called Monolith, that operates out of the Europan sectors. Just like most construction sites, it's labor and admin functions are completely bottom dollar. No news of incidents or trouble. Haze's Muse, which looks like Ms. Pacman, also finds a statistal growth in xeno-related hirings.
Krik answers after seeing the data, "Fine, but let's not do this like we're fucking new, alright?"
They go back to the ship for planning and rest. Haze's research bring up a color code system that they can easily tell which morph should be in a certain area. He was able to get access to code black relatively easily, but codes grey and white are on premises only for upload. White is the code they need to get close to the gate.
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