[network] @jwatson; text; Day 416 [open]

[jumpthegun]

Is everyone awake and alive out there? We woke up last night, but I saw that obituary with all the odd blocks and symbols. Could we take a roll call? Was there more screaming? Sherlock, Mycroft, and I were all out.

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[jumpthegun]

That mechanical sound? Have you been over to the building in Residential Zone 1 with that electronic humming? Think it's 121. Did it maybe sound like that?

sorry for the delay, had to cross-reference movements

[plaguenurse]

I don't remember going by there, sorry. I've been in that area, but I don't remember that building. It did sound electronic.

I heard the sound by every person who was comatose, so someone else who was awake and has been there can probably tell you.

[She doesn't add: if anyone left awake was ever over there. Not many of them were still conscious.]

[jumpthegun]

I really wonder what it is. And why we had the screaming. Were we out for longer this time?

[plaguenurse]

Let me check.

[Her memory is not suited to the amount of information that Norfinbury is always piling on them, but she does take notes on things that seem medically relevant.]

It was less than a day when people fell unconscious and started screaming in the middle of the night. This time they slept through all of day 412 and all of day 414... It seemed like about the same amount of time for both days. It's kind of strange that people woke up in the middle of it, actually. [Not usually how comas work.]

[jumpthegun]

There's definitely something about our nanomachines that's causing the issue. That malware infection, whatever it really was. I'm really worried about Winter trying to contact us again with the system having the problems it is.

[plaguenurse]

Oh no! I didn't think about that. But you're right... If she's an AI, she could get really sick from malware.

I wonder if someone who's good at programming could write a code for a program she could see before looking at our posts. Like those pop-ups that ask "Are you sure?" when you click on things. [Actually, changing the name of the network to a warning would be most efficient, but Eve would have to do that and Diana doesn't think asking her to help with Winter would be a very good idea.]

[jumpthegun]

Angel might be able to do it. Or Rhys. They're the two best coders I know of. I think Jim and Zell are pretty handy with electronic and mechanical things, as well, but I don't know about programming. It's all a bit over my head, to be honest.

[plaguenurse]

Yeah. I can barely get my privacy settings the way I want them on social media. I have a friend who's really good at that stuff, but he's not here. [Not that she'd wish all this on Sigma, even though she misses him dearly.]

[jumpthegun]

Yeah. I imagine there are a lot of people who'd be handy with this sort of thing if they were here.

[Mary, for one. John might even take Irene Adler.]

I dunno what we'd even do without some of the people here. I can understand why all those other sessions failed before ours. With as many different people and skills as you need to solve some of the puzzles here, it'd be impossible for just a handful to do.

I wish we knew if they were okay, too. The data ghost collective, I mean. Those shadow people who wander around town are gone now. I think maybe part of that was them.

[plaguenurse]

Yeah... Those shadow people seemed like they were in a lot of pain before they disappeared. :( I wonder if they got infected with the malware somehow.

[She seems to remember the timing coinciding.]

[jumpthegun]

I wouldn't be surprised if they were. They've been infected by the cult's influence before. Might be the malware's part of that if Miller really is a member of the cult.

[plaguenurse]

I wonder if he really is. The cult seemed to hate Winter and Andromeda, but Mr. Miller was really into computers, wasn't he? [And the robots would have been like computers, right?]

[jumpthegun]

He was certainly in IT. But maybe he didn't think of them as properly real people.

[plaguenurse]

I don't know if he even thinks of US as real people. :(

[He definitely doesn't act like it.]

[jumpthegun]

[He probably doesn't.]

I think he's a very disturbed and sadistic man. Whatever he actually thinks. Or what's left of his neural map is. I don't think he ever left that Bunker alive.