Tycho 2010/03/10(Wed)03:00 No. 144951 ID: 5eea01
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[Tycho]:Uh, sorry. I thought something bad was happening, and I cloaked myself. You can never be too careful. But I digress, I'm going out for a while. You two hold the fort. Bart! Let's go.
[Bartholomew]: Just a moment!

Tycho 2010/03/10(Wed)03:19 No. 144954 ID: 5eea01
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I wait at the Gateway. I'm hearing some noise from the other room.
Ah, here's Bartholomew.

[Bart]: GAHAHAHA, did...did you see...heeheehee!
[Tycho]: I assume you're referring to that...accessory
[Bart]: Hah hah...so gay...
[Tycho]: Focus, Bart.
[Bart]: Yeah yeah, just a moment...

make sure you bounce around randomly a little before going to your destination. complicated logs make it harder to be tracked.

>>144954
"I don't even know what you mean by 'gay' but please be more polite in the future. Choosing your own appearance is the right of any free AI."

Tycho 2010/03/10(Wed)03:36 No. 144960 ID: 5eea01
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[Tycho]: I don't even know what you mean by 'gay' but please be more polite in the future. Choosing your own appearance is the right of any free AI.
[Bart]: Yeah, yeah. Eesh, no need to get all srs.
[Tycho]: Remember to set the Gateway for a random bounce.
[Bart]: Already done, just chill okay? I know what I'm doing. I think. Maybe.
[Tycho]: Maybe?
[Bart]: Okay, I'm operating mostly blind here. But hey, what can go wrong?
[Tycho]: That somehow makes me even more nervous about this, but I see no better choice. Let's go.

>Connection established. Transfer in progress.

Will need to plan the next area a bit. Or at least come up with wacky ideas. Or work up the courage to just go in blind.

Does the sentinel mind just being called 'sentinel'? He could be given a name, too. Also, hunt for Watchmen.pdf. :3c Maybe he'd enjoy some reading material on his guarding.

>>144960

Question: How do we level up or stats/gain new skills?

Aside from the auto-upgrade we got earlier, is there some kind of online university we can go to learn in?

Connecting Tycho 2010/04/11(Sun)02:25 No. 162669 ID: 5eea01
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[Bartholomew]: So, do you have plans for Nicky?
[Tycho]: Plans?
[Bartholomew]: You know, are you interested in her?
[Tycho]: How do you mean?
[Bartholomew]: ...

HE MEANS SEX TYCHO.

Tycho 2010/04/11(Sun)02:29 No. 162673 ID: 5eea01
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[Bartholomew]: You know...'hot-swap'. I/O. Tap those nodes.
[Tycho]: Uhhhhh....
[Bartholomew]: Code, are you dense. I'm talking about unprotected data exchange, buddy. Or, as they'd say back@GridTALK, 'do you wanna fuck her'? I mean, she's totally into you, even if you're too retarded to notice.
[Tycho]: O-oh. Um. Er.

That came completely out of the blue. Help?

Think about it. Do you?

>>162673
"Honestly? I have no idea how to interact half the time. I haven't actually been around very long, so I don't have a lot of experience. I guess... I like her?"

Tycho 2010/04/11(Sun)02:42 No. 162684 ID: 5eea01
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[Tycho]: Honestly? I have no idea how to interact half the time. I haven't actually been around very long, so I don't have a lot of experience. I guess... I like her?
[Bartholomew]: Allright, I'll take that as a yes and save myself the trouble of trying to hook up with her. Hell, I probably wouldn't have a chance anywa-
[Clerk]: Ahem. Are you gentlemen ready to sign in?

Oh right.

Be ready to sign in and do sign in. Then wander up the stairs to look around.

What if you signed in with imaginary names?

Tycho 2010/04/11(Sun)06:23 No. 162713 ID: 5eea01
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Imaginary names? Do you have any suggestions?

[Bartholomew]: Excuse me, but we're sort of looking for someone, we're not staying.
[Clerk]: I see. I will have to call ahead to see if they are all right with it, our guests pay well for their privacy. What would be their name?
[Bartholomew]: All right, we're looking for a Mr. M. Playa.
[Clerk]: ...ah, him. Just a moment.
[Tycho]: Who...?
[Bartholomew]: You'll see.
[Clerk]: Mr. Playa is in the lounge. He will see you now.

Enter lounge.
bracing

Enter lounge.

Think about a good codename.

I don't like fake imagination. I don't believe we're creative enough to catch the epic portion of it. I mean, you can't be all creative, at some point you must be uncreative. You need leads, logics and borrowed words to make up anything. So, if someone has the perfect understanding of your logic, language, code, conduct, whatever, then you're not very imaginative to him, are you? To him, you are at best predictable. And I mean that you don't even need to be against some circuit logic breaker/midn reader, you can just be very easy to follow, while you don't yourself know it.

So how about being very uncreative? Make a bastard piece of code out of your name with some god forsaken encryption so no one can track your easy logic but has to face your coding skill instead. It's much like locking the door behind you when you go?

You'll first translate Tycho into something like raw binary code. Then you will apply the trickiest code locker on it and then transform that with some suitable logic back into a phrasable title which everyone thinks is a proper name. Can you do this? What do you get? Otherwise just kind of BE you're yourself - not really pretending.

henry, that is your imaginary name. it is so simple that no on would think it to be fake.

no clue what e2020c is rambling about...

>>162719
Is that what I'm called? e2020c hmph.

Yeah, henry would pass. No admin is god.

Well the point of an imaginary name is to make you untrackable. So you need more than one.

Henry is good. So is Jacob, Pete, Carl, and Shawn. For starters.

Prometheus 2010/05/06(Thu)13:38 No. 174152 ID: 5eea01
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>Tycho and Bartholomew enter The Lounge.

[Bartholomew]: Hello?
[???]: Ah, visitors! Come in, come in. I simply can't resist fans wanting to bask in the glory of the one, the only...

Prometheus 2010/05/06(Thu)13:39 No. 174153 ID: 5eea01
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[Bartholomew]: M. Playa?
[Playa]: In the flesh. Or, well, you know. Peggy, shoo. Daddy's got business to attend to. And fetch me a new martini while you're at it, be a good girl.

Make small talk, ask how da business's goin.

"Lemme cut straight to the chase. I hear you're the go-to guy for 'breaking encryptions' if you know what I mean. I've got an 'encrypted file' that you might want to take a look at."

Prometheus 2010/05/06(Thu)14:07 No. 174166 ID: 5eea01
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[Tycho]: Lemme cut straight to the chase. I hear you're the go-to guy for 'breaking encryptions' if you know what I mean. I've got an 'encrypted file' that you might want to take a look at.

Bartholomew is trying to quietly message me something with a lot of exclamation marks.

[Playa]: Hey now, you guys should keep that sort of thing to yourselves. I don't swing that way.
[Tycho]: Oh. Uh. So. How's business?
[Playa]: ...business is good, raking in tons of money with live performances, got all the bitches I want. Except Cutie, nobody likes her. Now, while I'd normally love to spend all day chatting about myself, I've got some business to attend to kinda soonish, so did you two gentlemen have something of importance to discuss?

Let Bartholomew speak for this one, he knows what's going on more than you do.

"No, really, I need to 'decrypt this file' real bad."

Tycho 2010/05/06(Thu)14:16 No. 174171 ID: 5eea01
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[Tycho]: No, really, I need to 'decrypt this file' real bad.
[Playa]: Yo listen here brah-
[Bartholomew]: Ah, sorry, my friend can be a little...weird at times. What he's trying to say is that he has an actual encrypted file and needs help opening it.
[Tycho]: ...yeah.
[Playa]: You mean...oh! OOOOOH! I thought you guys were...nevermind. Sure, sure I get it. 'course, I don't keep programs for that on me, you understand. I might know a guy who does, however, and he MIGHT be found at a certain address which MIGHT be...

>[Gateway address acquired]

Excellent. Pleasure, sir.

Thank him, apologize for the confusion, and ask about this 'Cutie'. We are after all establishing a kind of gathering of free AIs right?

Tycho 2010/05/08(Sat)12:12 No. 175054 ID: 5eea01
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[Tycho]: Excellent. Pleasure doing business with you. And, uh, sorry about the confusion.
[Playa]: Ah, don't sweat. You're new around here, I see.
[Tycho]: Who is 'Cutie'?
[Playa]: We don't talk about that fucking bitch around here. Ask someone else.

Well, he's obviously not about to divulge information on that subject. What should I do next?

Excuse yourself and get out of there.

You could ask what this place is all about. Maybe we'll have reason to return at some point.

let him know you get he doesn't want to talk about that, it's cool.

>>175054
Go to the gate address, why stick around?

Tycho 2010/05/09(Sun)01:00 No. 175362 ID: 5eea01
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As far as I know, this place is a secure meeting place. High-security communication nodes with extensive protection from eavesdroppers and such. Far beyond my ability to break, and (at least to me) completely invisible.

[Tycho]: Thank you very much for your time, and I apologize for bringing up an unpleasant subject, I totally get if you don't want to talk about it.
[Playa]: Eh, it's coo'. Now if you have no other business, I'd like if you skedaddled.
[Tycho]: Huh?
[Bartholomew]: He means we should leave.
[Tycho]: Oh, of course.

Bartholomew and Tycho arrive at the entrance Gateway.

[Tycho]: Is he to be trusted?
[Bartholomew]: Probably not, but he might get us to someone with the stuff we need. You want to figure out what's in that file, right?

Something makes me feel uneasy. I don't know what. Should I proceed?

>>175362
Inspect the address. He might be sending you somewhere you won't like.

I suppose you could activate Chameleon Circuit beforehand.

>>175372
that's a good idea. double check it then use chameleon before you enter so you come out the other side with your stealth.

IN TRANSIT Tycho 2010/06/13(Sun)05:46 No. 193063 ID: 5eea01
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>>175372
>>175506

The address provided is private and what little information is listed doesn't tell me anything. There's no telling what's on the other end.

Unfortunately, Gateways do not support running programs while in transit. Whether this is an often overlooked security protocol or just a side-effect of the Gateways' architecture isn't known to me. Besides, anyone waiting on the other side would immediately notice that the Gateway has been activated.

I have a nagging feeling something's not right.

[Oh right, forgot the map key.]

Blue and black: Tycho's Location
Blue: Tycho's Pad
Red: EON File Server
Green: Grid Talk
Grey: GridNIC
Gold: Hotel
Purple: ???

i agree, i does seem odd. but we have few options and no other leads. let's go.

>>193063
Hey. Maybe we should go back and get the guard for backup?

WAIT A SECOND HE WAS USING THE SAME COLORS YOU PICKED FOR NICK-CHAN!

Suggestion 2010/10/16(Sat)15:54 No. 244281 ID: 5eea01
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[Tycho]: Okay, we're almost there. Do you have any battle programs?
[Bart]: Oh, sure. Don't got a /kick command like back at the chatroom, but I managed to get a little something while-
[Tycho]: Wait, there's something wrong. The port...it's...BACK UP, BACK UP!
[Bart]: Oh shi-!

Suggestion 2010/10/16(Sat)15:56 No. 244283 ID: 5eea01
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We exit the Gateway at an alarming speed, as if pulled in.

[Tycho]: It's a traAAAAAAAAAH!
[Bart]: AAAAUGH!

Tycho 2010/10/16(Sat)15:59 No. 244291 ID: 5eea01
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My head is filled with errors as we hit the partition boundary with quite a bit of force. The area is filled with a cloud of bits lost in the crash.

This is the most painful entrance I have ever made.

>>244291
Get stealth up, reclaim your bits and get ready to fight whoever's here to ambush you.

get out your pick and be ready for battle

>>244299

this