O R D 30

Alexandra cackles maniacally.
O.R.D - Session 30
As Alexandra cackles maniacally, the Oran's lights flicker, some of the nearby electronical instruments near the party (wherever they are two days after they returned to the Oran) start to function oddly, spewing out things and generally tryeing to harm whoever comes by. An emergency call is issued to the party, Yate's doing the calling //"Attention Goldstar 9! Assemble immediatly at briefing room #26, do not, I repeat, do not use hyperwarp gates, use the stairs"
Alexandra quickly shuts up and defends herself. "Uh. Wasn't beink me."
Yate: "Just move quickly!"
Jimmy moves! Moves! Moves!
Yate is in the brefing room as per expected, his clothes are all out of place, like he dressed in a hurry and forgot to place his pants correctly, as they're reversed. He only has a single boot on and a sock and no shirt. He doesn't notices as people enter as he stares at a screen
Alexandra skedaddles!
Kolitk continues to not have a communicator. >_>
He turns back suddenly as he notices you're there "Oh! It's horrible, the main Savant computer core has been damaged, on top of that something seems to have happened to Ashely and Suka's still in a coma and Kolitk vanished! Everrrything happened at once just an hourrr ago!"
Yate: "You'rrre being sent to the computerrr corrre to see what is wrrrong, we've got teams worrrrking on the otherrr prrrroblems. Ack! The hyperrrwarrrp gates arrren't worrrking correctly eitherrr!""
Jimmy: "D…damaged?"
Jimmy: "How'd that happen?"
Yate: "I don't know! That's why you'rrre being sent. Just… Just go!"
Alexandra salutes. And goes to go find Kolitk and Ashley in the process. >:E
Alexandra: "Would like to be clarifyink that this was not me!"
Alexandra will find Kolitk nowhere to be found, and Ashley to be in the medical ward in what seems to be a coma
Jimmy splits off from Alexandra. "I'll move ahead. There has to be a better way." Where the heck is this computer, anyway?
Alexandra looks up and blinks. "Is seemink like is just two of us." She follows Jimmy!
The computer core is nearby the Bridge itself, it takes a while but you eventually get to find the entrance to the computer core. You're escorted by two people of unknown gender or race armored in entirely black gear that makes them look nothing more than humanoid
The two of them are utterly silent, and take you to a room where there is a single wooden door on the other side. They point to it
Jimmy: "Now, before I go in.
Jimmy: //Can I ask if there's a reason why you guys aren't in there already?
"
Jimmy shrugs. //"Just, you know, checking."
They both shake their heads
Person: "Unauthorized. Access."
It's voice is clearly being electronically distorted
Alexandra shrugs. "And it seems we are havink access?"
Person: "Yes."
Alexandra rubs her hands together. "Well, then. Let us be workink."
Jimmy: "Guess so."
Alexandra heads in!
Alexandra backs out.
Alexandra: "… do you know what the problem is?"
Jimmy: "I think we're dealing with know-nothink seen-nothink, here. Better just go in."
Jimmy adjusts his ballcap and enters the door. Why's it wooden, anyway?
On the other side of the door is… A long road that extends into the darkness. The road is pure black with green lines forming squares into it, each square just about as large as a step. As you head inside and look backwards the door has vanished, and the road ends into an endless pit in darkness(more)
Alexandra peers at Jimmy. Did … did her accent rub off onto him?
In this strange place, you'll notice that your weapons and armor all acquire a certain glow, a shine. Also you'll notice two more people in there, a pair of mithra. One of them you know pretty well, Kolitk, and the other being the shaman of her village. Both have the same shiny-weapon thing going on
It is of note that to the right and left of the road there exists absolute nothingness, but it stretches forwards for a bit
Jimmy: "You… you know."
Jimmy looks at Alexandra. "Hogan's Heroes."
Kolitk: "…?"
Alexandra: "I … no. No, I do not know."
[OOC] JayM: Feel free to join in, Kolitk
Shaman: "<Hum… And where is this?>"
Jimmy: "There… there was a character called Colonel Klink in there. He ran the jail. But, uh, he always denied ever seeing anything, because it would only get him in trouble."
Jimmy: "He had kind of a catch phrase."
Kolitk: "< … Don't know.>"
[OOC] Kolitk: ^Do not
As you may or may not notice, everytime you speak speech bubbles appear with what you've said, they're in a level below your head
[OOC] JayM: Imagine like a video-game text speech stuff
Kolitk: "…"
Jimmy: "Uh."
Jimmy: "Computer, end simulation?"
The shaman looks down, startled "<This is strange>"
JayM: //No response, Jimmy

Jimmy shrugs. //"Worth a shot."
Kolitk: "… When did you two get herrre?"
Jimmy: "Like a minute or so back. Huh."
Alexandra looks up. "Da."
Jimmy looks down in the darkness.
JayM: //It's infinite

The Darkness looks up at Jimmy
Kolitk: "… <When did we get herrre? …>"
Shaman: "<Did we not go through one of those magical portals just a few moments ago?>"
Kolitk: "<I … Do not know?>"
Jimmy: "So presumably we're in some kind of prosaic time/space distortion thing."
[OOC] Alexandra: * Alexandra waves at the darkness. Hi, darkness!
Alexandra: "Hmmm."
Kolitk: "…"
Shaman: "<I am pretty sure we did>"
Jimmy: "It's running the interface right though, isn't it?"
Alexandra: "… We were sent to fix the Savant computer. Da?"
Jimmy: "It's just not actually containing any data."
Jimmy: "Things go in… nothing comes out."
Kolitk … shrugs, confused?
Alexandra: "… we went in."
Jimmy: "And we are in."
Alexandra: "Well. Let us fix this. I would, one day, like to be comink out."
Jimmy: "Sure. I'll get to work."
Jimmy rolled d100 and got 30 for a total of 30
JayM: What… Exactly are you rollong for?
Jimmy sits down on the edge of that solid bit of the darkness and starts appraising the situation, his legs hanging over the precipice.
[OOC] Jimmy: Systems! Knowing what the hell is going on.
JayM: Hum…
JayM: What's your Systems rating?
[OOC] Alexandra: I should do the same?
[OOC] Jimmy: 96.
[OOC] Alexandra: maybe I don't need to do the same.
Jimmy sits up with a start. //"We're moving further in."
Jimmy: "Don't fall off."
Kolitk: "… Um. … Okay."
Jimmy spins his staff into hand, and starts walking deeper into the darkness, tapping his staff against the ground in front of him.
Alexandra: "…"
(( Heh, why not? ))
Alexandra rolled d100 and got 25 for a total of 25
Kolitk … scratches at her head and follows after Jimmy.
[OOC] JayM: Go at it, eh
Alexandra looks up and around. "…A-ha. Huh."
The Shaman follows you all. Heading further in you end up in what seems to be a type of… Plaza of some sort. The road widens to a type of platform floating in the darkness and then it has three more exits from where you are. There's a few people with robotic-looking glowing armor walking around, also a few in stalls that seem to be selling things
JayM: //Also a shiny helmet is in the ground

Kolitk: "… Huh."
Jimmy slides the tip of his staff into the helmet and picks it up.
The helmet is just like the one the people here are wearing
Alexandra: "When in Rome."
Jimmy inspects it.
JayM: Hum… Awareness
Jimmy rolled d100 and got 15 for a total of 15
The helmet appears to be solid, and yet, made out of energy. It has markings that give it a 'holy' style with a cross design in the back and being white colored with feathers. However, it shares the same 'basic' style as the one the people around here wear
Jimmy: "If we had time, I'd see what happens when we take this out. One moment."
Jimmy inspects the stalls. I wonder what's for sale?
JayM: A lot of square type of stuffs that seems like data disks, as well as stuff that seems to be geometrical blocks. Also weapons and armor
About now a hume comes by wandering, he's not wearing any armor. He looks at you and points towards the west exit
Kolitk: "… Um."
Alexandra: "… am guessink he … or she … is with Oran?
Jimmy: "Helpful."
JayM: It's of unknown gender, indeed
The hume then vanishes
Shaman: "<This is a strange place. I feel something here>"
Jimmy: "Curious."
Jimmy heads west.
Kolitk: "<… Very strange.>"
Kolitk hesitently follows after Jimmy.
[OOC] Alexandra: Go west, young man!
Alexandra picks up the rear.
Heading towards the west exit you come by what seems to be a very large castle. The ground is merely one 'tile' large around it. The front door is wide open
Inside of the castle it is made of stone, perfectly cubic stones. You can see stairways going up and down to the right and left
You also hear groaning coming from a stairway going down from the right
Jimmy heads down the right stairway.
Kolitk: "… Um."
Kolitk follows Jimmy, still looking around confused.
Alexandra , once again, follows up with the rear!
Jimmy: "In a situation where we have no information, any direction containing information is preferable."
Jimmy: "It's, um, kind of all representative? We're dealing with a GUI as opposed to what's going on."
Going down you end up in what seems like a type of dungeon. There are varyous jail cells in a very medieval style. However, there is nobody here. Maybe with two exceptions, a man that is sitting cross-legged in a meditative trance in a cell and in the direct opposite another man with a dumb look in his face like. The cell with the zen man is has laser bars, all the others have iron bars
Jimmy checks for a lock or interface on any of the doors, especially the one with the meditative man.
The one with the meditative man has an interface, yes. Once you approach it a screen pops up. It has some sort of writing it you cannot identify, but Kol might have seen it in Yate's office. As for the man with the dumb look, his has a simple padlock
Kolitk: "… Um. … Hm."
Shaman: "<Kolitk, do you sense this?>"
Alexandra goes to check out the dumb-look man.
Kolitk: "<… Sense what?>"
The man looks at Alexandra blankly, then moves closer and tries to keep walking despite the bars
Shaman: "<I feel a presence… The spirits of this place are disturbed>"
Kolitk: "<Oh…>"
[OOC] Alexandra: Is he… walking *into* The bars?
[OOC] JayM: Yes, tryeing with little success
Alexandra … shrugs and takes out chalk. (( FIGHT ITEM » ALCHEMY RUN ))
Alexandra , of course, plans to shove those bars out of the poor guy's path!
Alexandra rolled d100 and got 22 for a total of 22
[OOC] JayM: Give me a second, computer's acting freaky
Very quickly, screen pops up nearby Alexandra. It says //"Fight. Item. Abilities. Defend. Run", then the 'Abilities' line blinks and it appears a new screen "Metal. Wood. Stone". Metal highlights and the screen vanishes. A baloon written 'Success' pops up for a second above Alexandra's head and the bars vanish
Jimmy walks around the poor guy and enters the cell.
Jimmy: "Now we go around the lasers."
Alexandra looks at the walls. What material are they?
The dumb-looking guy moves in Jimmy's direction, and bumps on him, and keeps tryeing to walk into him
JayM: //Stone… Maybe. It looks like stone, but it's not really stone

Kolitk: "…"
Alexandra blinks. … hey, maybe she can move the iron in the other cells to block the lasers in the zen man's cell!
Alexandra rolled d100 and got 37 for a total of 37
The same popup screen shows up, but when it moves to Metal it gives off a buzzing sound and does nothing
Jimmy: "One sec."
Kolitk shakes her head and puts a hand over one of her ears. >.O
Alexandra scowls and backhands the screen out of annoyance.
Jimmy takes his glasses off and puts the lens into the way of the lasers.
The scrren vanishes
For some reason, the lens doesn't moves into the lasers, they seem to be solid?
Jimmy puts them back on.
The other man keeps tryeing to walk into Jimmy, now he's raised a hand and is tryeing to grab something
Jimmy: "…Quit it."
JayM: Awareness, Jimmy
Jimmy rolled d100 and got 1 for a total of 1
JayM waits for Party reactions
[OOC] Alexandra: We … were waiting for the result for jimmy's roll, I suppose!
Kolitk … reacts to the nothing by doing nothing? :p
Jimmy: "Oh."
Jimmy puts the helmet on the man's head.
The man stops, and shivers //"Woooow! Thanks" he says. His text screen is somewhat different, it's borders are white and decorated with feathers
Man: "Thanks for returning my helmet… Not sure if it's mine but oh well. Actually… Wherever are we?"
Kolitk: "… Um."
Alexandra: "Well. You were in a prison."
Jimmy: "Write only memory, looks like."
Alexandra shrugs.
Shaman: "<Mind telling me what is happening?>"
Man: "Oh, nice… Hum… Say, why are we here, then?"
Jimmy: "We want to get that cell open."
Jimmy points to the laser-barred cell.
Jimmy: "Maybe all the others, too."
Kolitk: "<… I do not know?>"
The man goes over to the laser-barred cell and pokes the lasers, that are solid. He pokes them more and then the screen pops up "It… Won't open up just like this"
Man: "Maybe we should go out and explore!"
Kolitk: "…"
Alexandra facepalms. "… world is not workink like real world. Perhaps there is a switch, da."
Jimmy: "Guess we should move."
Jimmy: "Throne room? Throne room."
Jimmy gets to moseying.
Kolitk … follows after Jimmy.
Alexandra waddles along.
Jimmy goes around in the castle! Strangely bland and nondescript castly this one is. It's eerily empty if anything and anybody, the furniture is set in a reapeating pattern. You eventually reach a throne room, where there is a woman clad in the same armor the people outside wear, except hers have a dark and goth style. She is somewhat familiar, and she's passed out in the throne. The person who accompanies her, however, is even more familiar, Eins
Kolitk: "… Um."
Alexandra: "… hallo!"
Eins bows "Good afternoon. Could you please help mistress Ashley?"
Jimmy: "What? Well, concievably."
Kolitk points at Ashley, "<… She needs help?>"
JayM: //The woman, mind you, is at least 20 years old

JayM: She looks like Ashley, though
Alexandra blinks and looks around the room, lost in thought. The words 'Ender's Game' ring through her mind several times.
Alexandra …
Alexandra: "Can be helpink! Of course."
Kolitk: "…"
The room is bland, it has the throne a red carpet
Jimmy: "Better diagnose."
Jimmy approaches and inspects the patient.
Eins: "She appears to have passed out after we entered the cyberworld"
JayM: Healing and Systems check
Jimmy: "…The interface failed."
[OOC] Jimmy: Lowest of the two, or roll twice?
Jimmy rolled d100 and got 79 for a total of 79
Kolitk 's ear twitch. //"… Um."
[OOC] JayM: roll twice
Jimmy rolled d100 and got 2 for a total of 2
Alexandra: "But when did she grow?"
Kolitk looks … up and around, slowly, and confused. "… Hello?"
Ashley seems to be physically fine… Except not. The armor she wears… It is 'fused' with her body. Jimmy notices that the armor is actually made of… Pure data, and that it connects with Ashley's body like it was part of her body
Eins: "As soon as we were dragged in, ma'am"
Jimmy: "I'm thinking we had better smash this off."
Eins: "Please, don't. It is vital to her, she could not survive without it"
Eins: "If I may inquire, have you been called in to rescue the mistress?"
Kolitk: "… Um."
As of note, Eins' also got glowing armor stuff going on
Alexandra: "We, uh. Had little to no briefink."
Jimmy: "We've been called in to fix the computer. Which is, presumably, this."
Jimmy: "The computer is probably in charge of the briefings."
Eins: "I see. You are in the cyberworld, your bodies and souls have been turned into data and downloaded in the Oran's network. You are currently in the memory banks of Kraft, one of the five Savant Computers that compromise the Oran's computer core"
Kolitk … blink.
Eins: "While here you are subject to the cyberworld's rules. It appears that this place has been modded after a video-game"
Eins: "Misterss got sucked into this place suddenly a while back, I came by to aid her"
Alexandra: "Is seemink that way. Where are our real bodies?"
Eins: "They are right here. Your physical matter was transformed into data. It is part of Valoris' unique defense system, so it may use antivirus programs to deal with physical offenders as well as hackers"
Jimmy: "Does it work the other way around?"
Alexandra rubs her chin. "Data, data … is it possible to be creatink back-ups?"
Kolitk: "…"
Eins: "No, it cannot transform data into physical matter. It transforms physical matter into data by altering some quantum values, however, the opposite change is not possible due to the etherial nature of the changes"
Kolitk: "…"
Eins: "Backups of physical beings are possible, but the system has a safeguard that only allows them to be created at special spots called 'Save Points'"
Alexandra looks slightly disappointed. "Hmm. Good to be knowink we can avoid permanent death in this world, at least."
Eins nods "Indeed. I would please ask of you not to remove the mistress' equipment. It is linked to her capacities. I do not know the equivalencies, but each piece of equipment is one of her capacities"
Kolitk: "…"
*blink*
Jimmy: "Just a thought."
Jimmy: "So why the coma?"
Kolitk: "… How."
Kolitk: "… Do we get out?"
Eins: "That is what I asked your help for"
Eins: "It appears that whatever damamged the system has caused the system that turns data into physical matter to go offline"
Kolitk: "…"
Alexandra gets to thinking. And thinks. And says nothing. Then snaps out of this seemingly trance-like state!
Alexandra: " — er! Right, right."
Alexandra pulls a wrench out of her jacket and swings it around, smacking one end into her palm several times. "Where is the damage beink?"
Eins: "The damage was to Valoris, it appears it has been entirely disabled and it's resources are being used by an outside entiety. All the pathways to Valoris, however, seem to be destroyed"
Alexandra: "… its resources are beink used by an outside entity and they send us inside — "
Kolitk: "…"
Eins: "Oh, I am sorry. I meant that an invader is using it's resources"
Eins bows "I am sorry if my explanation was lacking"
Alexandra points down. "They are in this system, then?"
Eins: "Yes"
Alexandra: "Da. Okay. Situation is makink sense again."
Kolitk shakes her head.
Alexandra: "Shut up, Kolitk."
Kolitk: "…"
Alexandra: "So! Who is knowink way to make path, huh?"
Kolitk … shrugs?
Alexandra glares at Eins with a smile. "Because you seem to be knowink a lot about system."
Eins: "Probably only Valoris himself. Despite Valoris central functions having been cut off, Valoris' 'self' has been thrown here to seal it away from it's functions"
Eins: "I am sorry, ma'am, but I cannot tell you why I know this much. I beg of you not to tell mistress I do"
Kolitk … goes over and tries to pick Ashley up. And may or may not be successful with her astounding 4 STR.
Alexandra: "Ah. Valoris must have been that man in the cell?"
Ashley is as light as air
Kolitk starts … walking back to the laser cage cell. Slowly.
Eins: "I personally do not know of Valoris' current avatar. He used to have a child avatar, but it appears that he changed it to a female shape recently. But with the disruption of his systems there is no telling what happened"
[OOC] Alexandra: Where's the guy with the helmet been this whole exchange, by the way?
[OOC] JayM: Right behind you all
[OOC] JayM: Just hearing wit ha happy smile
[OOC] Alexandra: I figured.
The laser cage cell is there, the man meditating is there
Alexandra: "But if there were only one prisoner, well. It is likely beink him, da?"
Kolitk: "… Um."
Kolitk: "Help herrr?"
Eins: "Likely"
Alexandra rubs her hands. "Well, then."
The meditating man opens up his eyes, and stares at Kolitk, then down at Ashley… "You… Need time… To let her restore herself… Nothing more…" he closes his eyes, and returns to meditation
Kolitk: "… Oh. Okay."
Alexandra heads to the laser-guarded cell!
Kolitk walks backs to the rest of the part—or not and just sets down Ashley next to Eins when she gets there.
Eins follows the party down, the man also does. Eins kneels down and watches over Ashley
Alexandra: "Valoris?"
There is no answer
The man with the helmet answers "That's not him"
Alexandra: "… da. Of course."
Kolitk: "… Yes?"
The man looks inquisitively at Kolitk
Alexandra tilts her head at the helmeted man. "If … you knew what he looks like, could not you be helpink earlier?"
Kolitk shrugs…?
Man: "I know what he looks like?"
Eins: "This man appears to be a Savant Computer too. Except, he is missing all of his equipment. He should not be of much help"
Alexandra: "Or. Well. How do YOU know that THIS man is not beink Valoris?"
Man: "I know he's not Valoris!"
Man: "I don't know why I know, though…"
Alexandra: "Wonderful."
Kolitk 's ears droop.
Eins: "Maybe we should try looking for the rest of his equipment"
Jimmy: "…Yeah."
[OOC] JayM: Maybe… It's about time we stop today's game?
[OOC] Alexandra: Perhaps?
[OOC] Jimmy: I think!
[OOC] JayM: Kinna early, but oh well. I've gave you all your objective, at least =P
[OOC] JayM: For once
JayM: //Logend!

JayM: Hum… 12k Exp and 4k Gil

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