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Post by BD on Jun 30, 2008 8:51:51 GMT -5
Kite was laughing and almost busting a gut at the programmer's statement, "Fine, I call your bluff. That was 5 milliliters, I don't hit the lethal range until 50."
Kite was already drawing up another syringe, but this one had 15 milliliters, 3 times the power of the first dose. He reached over and injected the programmer again, if this one didn't work, he'd just go all out and bring it up to 45. He removed the syringe and chuckled as he showed the programmer the seconds hand on his watch, counting the seconds until the effects set in.
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Post by Ribitta on Jul 2, 2008 12:29:45 GMT -5
(Sorry for the delay, but even still I'm gunna go ahead and borrow Robert Jordan's description for this... because it just can't be beaten.)
"I may be broken..." the programmer sputtered hoarsley, "but even the pain of ten thousand swords cannot teach me knowledge about the Council I do not know.... you will never find the mole though; he is something for one moment, and the next he is another. It is not I... Whilst what you seek may be in the tower, what you seek does not call it home... The rise is coming, the council will strike, and a dragon must fall..." A pen on his jacket lit up like a beacon. "I guess this time they were slow, and it cost them."
The entire pen was now glowing and with a sudden flash of light it exploded. It was contained, not aimed for Kite. It aimed only downward in the blast; it aimed right into the programmer's heart.
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Post by BD on Jul 2, 2008 14:39:10 GMT -5
"Well nuts..." Kite said; he had an audio recorder out so that he could decipher the whole thing later.
He reached into his pocket and hit a button that would undo the fake server move, and then he proceeded to pick up his cell and PM Samus.
I'll explain what just happened later, but I just nabbed one of the moles. He killed himself after I got his info. You'll wanna hear the recording of what he said though, bring Cortana too, we'll need her insight on the clues he gives. Oh, and give everyone the all clear. Oh, and we need janitors to clean this mess up...lots of janitors...he had alot of blood...
~ Kite
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Post by Rising Dragon on Jul 2, 2008 19:41:44 GMT -5
When Kite looked back up, he'd find himself staring down the green-armored barrel of an arm cannon aimed right at his head.
"Actually," Samus said in a cold voice, "I'd rather you explain now. Because currently, Kite, you're on the list of suspects. So start talking, or I start shooting."
The Nintendo Administrator had just gotten there when the pen had exploded, killing the programmer. All she knew at the moment was that someone had deleted the data on the killings, and that it had been done by one of the Staff Members who had yet to have been cleared of the charges in the prior investigation. Samus herself had been one of the first people investigated for the mole, and had been helping with the investigation.
And now, maybe they actually had a suspect.
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Post by BD on Jul 2, 2008 21:40:11 GMT -5
"Woah there, Tex. Don't make friendly fire. Okay, so I figured out that to set the betas up they needed the data. First I 'deleted' the beta killings data so that they wouldn't know who was gone and who wasn't anymore. And by deleted I mean moved to the flash drive in my pocket. Then I set up a fake deletion for the beta listing of players that could only be stopped from the main terminal, which was only moving it to a different server. Now of course this would send ninety programmers here in a heartbeat, under normal circumstances. But if a rapid dismissal emergency, like a fire alarm, occurs, then everyone leaves, no exceptions. Well, that just wouldn't work for someone that needed that listing, so they would have to creep down here and stop the download, so I waited here for that lone programmer to come. Low and behold, there he is, missing a few pieces from his suicide bomb, but I have his confession on tape if you'd like a listen. I can't understand many of the metaphors, other than that he's just a pawn for the real mole, who's a shapeshifter." Kite said without stopping.
He had learned one thing first hand. NEVER, under ANY circumstances piss off a woman with a gun. He felt safe with the tape in his possession though. The programmer said firsthand that the mole was a shapeshifter. He knew Samus still wouldn't trust him without visual, so he quickly made a few keystrokes on the terminal and then loaded the security footage from the past 15 minutes of pure adrenaline that included footage of Kite setting the trap, and the execution of the trap.
"Was fairly tough for his size. Normally 5 mls of the stuff gets 'em. Took me 15, he was obviously coached on how to deal with pain from torture."
He then played the footage, hoping to clear up all of the events that just occured by his hand.
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Post by Rising Dragon on Jul 7, 2008 16:20:21 GMT -5
Samus' weapon did not move from its position throughout the explanation. "And if this is a set-up?" she said icily. "Too often you go off and do things on your own. We just lost the best lead we had by losing him, and we could've pulled more information from him without letting him self-terminate. Until you have been investigated about the Beta tester killings, and cleared of any guilt, you are off this case as of now, Kite."
Samus lowered the arm cannon just as a pair of Angels came in to assess the damage and retrieve the cadaver. Leaving Kite to his thoughts, as well as Cortana to monitor his actions, Samus exited the room and proceeded down through the Administration Tower. I'll have to find and speak to Dragonheart about the matter, she thought sourly, not looking forward to the confrontation. Kite was fool enough to let him in on the secret, so he needs to be investigated as well. Alasea too, for that matter.
She sighed. She could already tell that things were gonna get ugly.
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Rua, on the other hand, had different ideas on what to do next. He was sitting on a bench in the pavilion across from the Tower, a leg drawn up to his chest while he pondered what to do. Alasea sat beside him, looking around as players and NPCs went about on their routines, her hands folded in her lap. Rua's eyes, however, remained centered on the Administration Tower, his thoughts dwelling on the book he had found and subsequently torched in the library at that A.I.-controlled citadel in the mountain wastes.
... forbidden groves... worship of the deep... cloud-covered mountains... weapon against the gods...
The Secret of the Dragon Tribe. Could it really be in the game?
"Hey, R.D.," Alasea said, looking at him. He perked up and turned his head towards his girlfriend, silent but expression questioning. "What's the matter? Something's bothering you, I can tell."
Rua turned his gaze back to the tower. "Just thinking about that book I found," he murmured. "If its really here, really in this game... we need to find it. The Sons are loose and if we have its power once more, you and the rest of the Daughters will be capable of defeating them."
Alasea gave him a sad smile. "I know," she said, laying a hand on his arm. "But will it really end in such a manner? Our powers are divine, too. I'm... not a Daughter of Dawn anymore."
"I know, Alasea. I know. But we have to believe. Its like Bahamut told me... The power of the unreal will overcome even impossible odds. We have to try."
"Then lets try."
Rua looked up at Alasea again, a bit surprised. Admittedly, a lot of his plans were dangerous and reckless, and Alasea didn't always approve. Slowly, he nodded, standing up from the bench. He held his hand out to her, and she accepted it, pulling herself up off of the bench. "Alright then. Let's get out of here."
Hand in hand, the two of them made their way away from the pavilion, headed for the exit portals. It was time for a long and difficult journey.
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Post by BD on Jul 7, 2008 23:18:41 GMT -5
Kite actually smirked to himself as he walked off. Even if she wouldn't admit it; a set-up of that would have been impossible. After all, they had just gotten back from the Hike with Tsindary, there's no way Kite could have forged the whole thing in that little time; it was just a matter of how long until Samus put the pieces together. Regardless, he wasn't about to just back off from another administrator telling him to. She wasn't his superior, if anything she was just being a pain up the dunghole today. He knew he could never change her mind himself though, but he didn't care.
Kite decided that it would be beneficial just to go to his house on the edge of town. And he did, making sure to lock the door as he went in; he entered his hidden terminal room from the hatch he had hidden in the floor. Each administrator had to have their own terminal in their house. In this case; Kite had two in this house, like all his houses on other continents. He turned one terminal so that it would not connect to the central network and began to boot the other one normally; he smirked again.
"You always did suck at picking up on the small details of a conversation."
He pulled out the hard disk with the beta killing files on it, that he had been able to keep due to Samus' lack of attention to the conversation and exactly what all Kite had with him; and then he booted it on the disconnected terminal, so that the terminal could not be backtraced to discover the files were in his possession. He began his next workaround. About 3 months ago, Kite needed a spare account due to log-in troubles. As it was a temporary account, none of his information was ever registered to it, and it had access to all the files he did normally. He accessed the beta listing and began to look for a pattern with the selections of killings. He searched furiously until he discovered that there appeared to be no pattern.
"There's nothing here...wait a minute..."
Kite counted the gaps between names again and realized something very revealing.
"No number is over 26. It could be alpha-numeric code..."
He proceeded to bring up the code breaker module on the networked computer and input the numbers.
"Wearedragonbane...let's see...space it... We are dragon bane..."
He proceeded to blankly stare at the screen.
"Okay, so they obviously have some dragon fetish going with what the programmer said...They seem to have some big problem with killing a dragon. Wait...there was those reports of a dragon out in the deep reaches of the mines guarding something."
He attempted to access the file, but discovered that remote access was blocked and he would have to go to the office to pick up a hard copy. He reluctantly crawled out of his terminal room and closed the hatch, sealing it to any preying eyes and walked back to administration skyscraper with a look of hidden annoyance. He entered the building and immediately noticed that there were more guards than usual.
"Looks like they don't understand the whole shapeshifter thing yet..."
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Post by Rising Dragon on Jul 8, 2008 15:46:20 GMT -5
The six Angels nodded as Samus finished giving them their orders--find Rua and have him report to the Administration Tower's briefing room--and quickly left, making their way down the tower to exit and begin their search of the beta tester. Sitting down next to the terminal in her office, she waited for a moment, thinking, before pressing a key on the computer.
"Cortana?" she asked, attempting to hail the A.I..
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Post by Ribitta on Jul 9, 2008 15:31:44 GMT -5
The screen of the Nintendo Administrator lit up with blue coding that quickly became a 3D image, wrapping itself around strands of coding to create Cortana's figure. Up until that point she had been watching the clip of the interrogation and explosion several hundred times, breaking apart the words, running them through different possible AI coding lines and trying to determine the meaning of them based off the initial coding and the psycological strain. However, now she had been called.
"What can I do for you?" the AI questioned simply.
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Post by Rising Dragon on Jul 9, 2008 16:27:59 GMT -5
"I want a lock-down of Kite's office, and have it searched. I want everything inside of it catalogued," Samus said to Cortana as she appeared in the screen. "Kite still needs to be investigated for any suspicious activities. If this mole is a shapeshifter, he could be posing as Kite. Cross-reference any recent activities with Kite's behavior and inform the investigation team of any discrepancies. Same goes for any of the other uninvestigated staff."
Samus stood up and looked over at the Chozo suit in its containment field for a brief moment, then decided against it. "Also, run a player search for Rua Dragonheart. I want him in for briefing on what Kite told him, but you know how he is. He'll likely try to escape given half a chance. Considering how reckless he can get, he might try to head back for that castle and investigate it again, but I want that area quarantined."
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Post by Ribitta on Jul 9, 2008 20:38:07 GMT -5
Cortana's figure nodded and a few seconds later replied, "Kite's administrator rights have been partially suspended stripping him from even entering his own office. A team of angels has been dispatched and will begin searching in it a few moments. His behavior is completely erratic as expected, and I'm currently creating a general model to compare his extensive list with. Anything abnormal I'll cross check myself and feed the list to the investigators. As for the Dragonheart boy, I've sent a pair of hired sentinels to begin looking for him, tag him, and bring him back to the tower."
Cortana paused and bit her lip in frustration, running through multiple processes at once. A few seconds later she spoke up regretfully, "As for quarantining the area... I'm afraid that will be impossible. As of now the updated Ymaggion maps state that the place does not exist."
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Post by Rising Dragon on Jul 9, 2008 21:21:11 GMT -5
"But we know it to exist," Samus said. "There is likely some sort of data interference preventing it from appearing on the map, which means either one of those blasted viruses has infected the entire region, or a glitch has occurred, or god forbid, someone hacked into the programming code itself.
"We can't do a normal quarantine, but we can keep other players from entering the castle's vicinity. Its even more dangerous there now that we know what's occupying the castle, and I'm not letting more players unknowingly throw away their lives over and over by raiding that same location. I don't want anyone entering or leaving that area."
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Post by BD on Jul 9, 2008 21:28:11 GMT -5
Kite made his way to his office, still a bit cautious around the guards, and he then attempted to scan his I.D. card to open his office. He ran it through the scanner, but it was rejected with a low beep and a red light. He tried it two more times to make sure he didn't just mis-scan it and eventually gave up and made his way up towards Samus' office. All he needed was to get into his office for a second to grab his keys to the archives and other rooms; maybe he could convince Samus to let him into his own office. He couldn't tell her what he needed though and knowing her she would probably ask. He thought of what else was in the office; he kept his tuxedo in the closet there; the keys were in that pocket as it was the only hiding spot he could think of. He could say he needed it for a party that night. Hopefully she would buy it, and he could grab his tux and get the keyes. He stopped at the door and knocked.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know you ordered my office shut-off. How I don't know, but I need in there."
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Post by Rising Dragon on Jul 9, 2008 21:58:13 GMT -5
Samus looked over at the door when a sensor beeped, alerting her to someone at the entrance. She had a feeling who it would be, and when Kite spoke, she wasn't disappointed. She pressed a button on the terminal, activating the intercom. "And what is it you need out of there?" she asked.
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Post by BD on Jul 10, 2008 9:40:26 GMT -5
"Well, currently my only Tuxedo is in there, and I would like to have it, considering I have to be at a friend's party in about an hour and a half," Kite said, completely bluffing.
Please for the love of God just let me go in and get it...
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