Player Event: Hackerquest v2.0

[rubikscomplex]

Characters: Anyone involved in the tablet plot. Even if you didn't sign up, you can still throw your character in!
Location: Throughout Norfinbury
Date: Night 254
Summary: A mass tablet destruction event and an attempt to hack the @ADMIN and @robertmiller accounts to get through to them after the block from Noisy White.
Warnings: Possibly incisions/surgery and mindfuckery if this is anything like the last time people tried to swallow chips from their tablets and hack the network.

[Lockdown provides an extremely convenient 'go' time for this particular event. House has contacted people through the Shadownet who could be contacted there (for some semblance of a potential surprise to whatever is watching the main network), but he's also contacted some through regular means. However they were notified, it's time. Line up your tablets with the door as lockdown ticks closer and wait for the doors to swing shut and smash the tablets.

Good luck, Snowhellions.]

Comments

[snowblindmods]

[They do indeed resemble those chips!]

[jumpthegun]

Hey, these look like what were down below. One of the last games Mr. Miller had us working on, sorting chips. And... Jack. The AI version. He saw something through the wall in the maze, something about it not actually being the maze? [John can't quite remember.]

Think we should ask Rhys about that. Might be important.

[Are any of the ports for the tablet still intact enough to be salvaged?]

Maybe... there was that hook-up in the industrial area that Brian found, the one that let Winter move things around a bit. There was a connection wire! Maybe if we could... if we could make something with these. If there's a port that still works, we could hook into that. Not sure what we'd get out of it without an interface. Hrm...

[He'll keep looking at the chips, trying to spot ones that look in any way unique from the others.]

[keepscalm]

[England frowns, looking over the chips that John points out as familiar. He delicately picks one up to observe it more closely. He ponders on the significance of the chips appearing in Miller's repair games, but there's not enough data to guess at an answer for that yet, so he's silent on that particular matter.]

We might be able to make something that connects to other networks, as well. We're limited to the Norfinbury network on our tablets, but if we could build a device that isn't bound by those security protocols...

[That's probably easier than it sounds, but it could be exceptionally useful.]

[fifty]

[The computer chips look more or less like this. America snaps his fingers.] Quantum chips! I mean, I think.

[jumpthegun]

[John blinks a few times. The word sounds familiar.]

Isn't that, like... they use that term in sci-fi a lot. Quantum Leap! Yeah, that was a show about space-time jumping. Oh. If they managed to actually build a quantum computer... what does that even mean? Could we access other networks with this? If they even still exist, like the Shadownet.

Oh, hey... It'd be nice it we could create something that would give everyone access to that.

[keepscalm]

[Yeah, England would not have been able to pin down "quantum chip."] In our day, it would mean that they could more efficiently handle all sorts of things that aren't practical for normal computers. Here, though? I can't speak of the implications. [This is a place with nanomachines that can bring them back from fatal wounds and keep them alive even in the face of deadly levels of radiation. What could quantum computing do with that?]

As for the other networks, I suppose this might be the last one, but I would hope that there's something on Winter's end. [Maybe they could figure out how to contact her whenever they need to...]