Casa Del Luna

[FG Admin]

Decker looked up from the computer as Bernard verbally thought out loud. He wasn't a man of many words but he did speak up this time. "That doesn't sound too far fetched. Maybe our Mayor is already a clone..."
Bianca and Decker exchanged a look before he went back to work.

Before Bianca could speak the waitress returned and ask what they would like. "I'll stick with my previous order- Eggplant and Portobello Mushrooms."
It was now Decker's turn to order. He looked at the waitress and shook his head. "I'm not hungry..."

The waitress took their orders and told them she would be back with their food. Now that they were alone again Bianca spoke up. "I actually didn't even think about that. Hydra has the power to store data on their system. Who knows what knowledge they could have stolen and placed in their databank. Maybe that is what is on the laptop..."

She now looked to Decker. "What have you found so far?"
The man gave her a sideways glance and let off a sigh.
"I need to get passed a lot of their security. Hold on..."

((Take down first cyber wall: 94+20 (Tech head)= 114.
43+10 (level 10 system security)=53.
114-53=61. Hacking Success.))

Decker picked up the data uplink and connected his laptop to one end and the USB cable to the stolen laptop on the other end.
He opened a password breaker to crack the files. the program began going through the list of symbols, numbers and letters to find the password.

The security program tried to deactivate the hacking device, but Decker used his laptop to send an override command and shut it down. The first security wall was destroyed and the password went through.

"Alright. I got through the first one. I need to get down two more. Give me a second..."

((50+20=70 (Tech Head)
46+10 (security)= 56
70-56=14. The system won.))

The second wall was a lot more complex. He tried to use the same tactic for the next password, but the security wall was too tight and a lot more advanced. It sent a halt command to his data uplink and tried to shut it down. He attempted to counter the command, which would have worked but the security system had a secondary hidden line of code that told his data uplink to reboot.

The hacking device displayed an error message and froze up. While the data uplink was temporally shut down, the password cracker that was running was deactivated. The data uplink proceeded to reboot and all of the information for cracking the second password was lost.

The good news was, the password for the first wall was stored on Decker's laptop so he could skip cracking that one.
He let off an annoyed sigh.

Bianca frowned. "What just happened?"

"The system just blocked me out. I'll have to try again... This security system is top of the line. I hate to admit this but, whoever built this was a lot more skilled than I am. I can get it down, it just might take longer than I thought..." Decker replied.

[Bernard]

((ESP-looking to the future roll=45 +5sp = 50 success))
((Accuracy Roll =62))
((Bernard 4 of 13 SP remain))

Decker let off an annoyed sigh which was immediately followed by the reporter’s trepidation to the resulting blank screen. The hacker was quick to try to ease any ill concerns updating his companions with what seemed to be bold confidence despite the current setback.
"… it just might take longer than I thought..." Decker concluded.

If it wasn’t for the hairs that innately stood to attention upon the back of his neck Bernard would have remained generally unaffected by the excitable actions across the table. The Sensitive had a relatively good grasp upon the inner most thoughts of his dinner companions, so the activation of his natural instincts which alerted him to some kind of imminent danger came as somewhat of a surprise. If it wasn’t coming from across the table, then where and what was the incoming threat? He pondered.

Given the broad nature of the ability, Bernard wasn’t even sure that he was the target under the circumstances. One thing he did know was that the sensation hadn’t been wrong in the past and he certainly wasn’t about to ignore it now. The Sensitive needed more information and the red headed psychic touched two fingers to his temple, quickly allowing his mind to scan the future in an effort to provide the answers.

Within seconds of Bernard's extra sensory tactic, a series of images quickly flashed in his mind.
The first thing that Bernard saw was a man standing in a dark alley, his eyes were glowing yellow. Nothing else could be seen.

The scene changed.
A woman was standing on the streets of the slums holding a small SMG in her hands. She had spiey red hair and was dressed in a long black trench coat. She was pointing it at the chest of another man; his face could not be seen.

The scene changed.
Outside of a large building there were a group of armed soldiers standing inside of a dark alleyway. Their weapons were fixed on a side door of the building. “We’re ready. Just give us the-”

The voice was cut off and the images of the future faded away as quickly as they started. None of the scenarios seemed to indicate any immediate threat to the group but could be taking place somewhere within the nearby vicinity. Despite his initial consideration to alert his companions to possible incoming dangers, Bernard now believed it would be in his best interest to withhold any such announcement for the time being. Decker was far more likely at this point to bolt for the exits and out into the streets where the true danger appeared to lurk, at any distress signal. He needed the man alive; at least until his work was complete.

“How much time we talkin’?” Bernard inquired trying to obscure any hint of anxiety that may have presented during the premonitions.

[FG Admin]

((Tech head: 18+20=38.
Security: 72+10=82.
38-82= -44. Epic failure...))

“How much time we talkin’?” Bernard inquired.

Decker scrunched his nose and shrugged. "Let me see..."
He tried to access the security wall by sending an override command to lower its defenses, and once again the security wall stood strong.

This time the security wall accessed a Trojan virus file and sent it into his computer system. It froze up his computer screen and displayed a large error screen with a donkey showing its behind to the camera with a huge grin on its face. A blatant taunt by the developer of the security system.

"Damn it..." Decker muttered under his breath. "They just locked me out my system. I have to take the time to disable the virus now to restore it." He now looked very irritated.
"This might be beyond me. We could be here all week at this rate. If we had a second data uplink, one of you could help me by slipping in through a backdoor and helping me break the security wall down. Basic knowledge will do, I could walk you through it from there."

Bianca now chimed in to give her two cents. "I have some minor knowledge, but I'm no where as skilled as you are. If I found another data uplink I could help, but that will take me time to get my hands on one. Maybe Bernard would have better luck finding another one. Is there any other way to get to the files?"

Decker gave both Bernard and Bianca a grim look. "I could force my way in, but some of the files could become corrupt and damaged, which would make them pretty much useless. We wouldn't be able to access some of them or properly read the information depending on how bad it is. That way will be faster, but you'll lose out on how many documents you can read. Its your call."

Decker and Bianca exchanged a look, and then at the same time looked to Bernard. It was technically now his laptop since he stole it. The choice would be up to him...

[FG Admin]

A woman wearing black stockings, a black skirt and a long black business dress coat walked into the Casa del Luna. She had blond hair and hazel eyes. She walked over to a table near the door and took a seat.

She proceeded to remove a newspaper from her purse and began to read it. A waitress promptly approached her and asked her what she would like, the blond woman ordered a cup of tea and went back to reading the paper.

[Bernard]

((Observation- What do we have here?- Roll = 58 +7 skill =65 Success.))

Decker and Bianca exchanged a look, and then almost simultaneously looked to Bernard for answers. The Sensitive pondered for a moment just what Decker was suggesting. While access to the entire collection would prove to be the optimal asset, he just didn’t think they could afford to sit on this a week. Any extended time spent in cracking the safeguards would only hinder any investigation. Once Hydra found out what data had been compromised they would do their best to cover any possible avenues that the information may uncover.

Some was better than none and the red headed fugitive at large was willing to gamble that the payback would outweigh the loss. “There was a datalink kicking around in the suitcase with the laptop.” Bernard proclaimed. “ But, given time is crucial at this point, what choice do we have? Let’s do it!” He declared putting his trust in the skill of the hacker.

It was somewhere during that conversation the astute Sensitive took interest in a well-dressed business woman taking a seat at table near the door. The blonde haired woman proceeded to remove a newspaper from her purse and began to read it, only stopping briefly to engage with the waitress before returning her attention back to the paper.“Waiting for someone?” Bernard considered curiously studying this new patron.

[FG Admin]

((Cyber battle: 7+20=27.
Digital Defense: 89+10=99.
99-27, took 72 damage. Failed.))

"Your call. As long as I get paid it doesn't matter to me..."
Decker engaged the security wall as if it were made of brick and sent his barrage of digital rockets. He assaulted it with a series of code to forcefully deconstruct the security program one piece of code at a time. His initial attack failed and the wall took the blow full on without a dent, however it sent back a backlash. That first virus that was sent now activated and was attempting to completely eat away at his system files to turn his computer into a sitting brick.

((80+20=100. Huge success.
Defense: 43+10=53.
100-53=47.))
Decker let it, whatever damage it caused now could be fixed later. He proceeded with his plan to take the wall down, and now sent a code to forcefully extract the files while at the same time sending a worm through to eat away at the security code. This seemed to work out better. The worm code slithered passed the defense and began destroying the code to take the wall down. It was already about half way down within a few seconds. A little more and they would be through.

((Final attack: 82+20= 92
25+10=35. Success.))
After the virus was in the system the rest of the battle was a cake walk. Decker was now in control of the program. He finished by accessing the main code and simply telling it to fall apart. The second and third security walls fell as he bashed them down and destroyed them. The files could now be accessed.

"I'm in. But it looks like 78% of it was damaged in the process. Read what you can..." Decker copied the information and unplugged the data uplink and the USB datastick and placed the items back in his backpack. He slid the stolen laptop back over to Bernard for him to look at the information. He then started viewing the stored code on his own laptop to see if he could learn more about how the security wall was put together.

[FG Admin]

'So now there was also a data uplink in that briefcase? Next he will tell me that there was also two million dollars in the side pouch and the agent is currently tied up in his house...'

Bianca thought to herself, but she didn't voice any of this out loud. She simply rolled her eyes and leaned back in her chair. All the lies were starting to come out now. What they were doing was dangerous but she wanted to get to the bottom of this Hydra situation once and for all, so she would mind her own business and keep her mouth shut. She figured this was all worth the risk. Besides, the less she knew about the overall situation about how he got the briefcase was all the better for her.

She crossed her arms as she waited for some type of progress to unfold. A few minutes later the waitress returned with their order and placed it all down on the table for them to eat. She told them that if they needed anything they could just ask. The waitress proceeded to return back to the kitchen and out of sight.

With nothing else for Bianca to do, she dug into the food.

After Decker announced that he got the wall down, Bianca slid around next to the red haired man- plate and all, so that she could read along with him to see what the new information said.

[Bernard]

It was never a good sign when a woman simply rolled her eyes and leaned back in judgment.
“What??” Bernard inquired, oblivious to the grounds behind her apparent irritation. Decker seemed content to stay out of the middle of the “couples” silent feud, focusing intently upon his appointed task. Bianca crossed her arms as if waiting for some type of admission of guilt to stream from the Sensitive’s mouth. It wasn’t about to happen.

The two sat in silence as the waitress returned with their order and placed it for them to eat. Food delivered the blonde server returned back to the kitchen and out of sight. The thick silence wasn’t as prevalent masked by the clanking silverware against their plates as they ate their meal. His only reprieve came as Decker delivered his announcement.

"I'm in. But it looks like 78% of it was damaged in the process. Read what you can..." Decker explained sliding the stolen laptop back over to Bernard .It wasn’t long before Bianca slid around next to the red haired man- plate and all. “Sure, now she wants to get cozy. Bernard thought as he quickly sifted through the information.

“I assume there is no way of hiding our hand was in this particular cookie jar?” Bernard addressed Decker regarding the forced entry. “Shame really. It kind of defeats the purpose of returning the package to its rightful owner.”

The payoff wasn’t as lucrative as it may have been had he been patient, but it certainly did provided a series of paths to follow that would get them closer to the truth. One of Bernard’s early assumptions had been made perfectly clear in the process. Hydra wanted the Sensitive’s out of the picture. Beliefs like that would lead to war if made public. Many of the names mentioned in the document fifty plus year old document would likely prove to be a dead end to finding any concrete proof that would stand up to scrutiny, but one stood out in particular; RYCROFT, another ageless benefactor to some mysterious fountain of youth and the man behind HYDRA.

Were they….we… all clones?”
They may have just opened Pandora's box.

“How old is Osiris?” Bernard inquired.

[FG Admin]

Decker was the first to speak up. "You could still restore the original files and place them on the stolen laptop. I made backups. The problem is that they just can't be read without taking time to either acquire a password or attempting to hack it properly. The other problem is that a good hacker can still find a trace that we tampered with it." Decker wasn't one for a lot of words, but it looked like something was bothering him.

"In fact, I want to point something out. We weren't the first to try and view the files. When I first started working someone else had sent a worm into the Hydra system to steal this information, and Hydra LET IT for awhile."

He let that sink in for a second before he continued. "They, and by they I mean Hydra, sent a tracking virus back to the source to see who was messing with the files. The problem is that this same tracking code was copied onto the laptop, and possibly onto the other data uplink you say you have in the briefcase. If you have a Hydra issued data uplink, nine out of ten it has a RFID chip buried somewhere inside of its case. Wherever you left that briefcase, they now know where it is now and have been watching. They could be following you..." This thought made Decker a bit paranoid but he tried to keep his cool.

Bianca now gave Bernard a concerned look. Hydra could have been tailing them all day. the thought slightly ruined her apatite...

It was now her turn to speak up. "I still have the safe house..." She offered. While he thought it over she decided to answer his other question. She cleared her throat to try to make the situation less tense. " Ahem. Anyways, I'm not sure why this is important, but I suppose you could say the city is pretty old. It wasn't always named Osiris though, Hydra moved in and started doing renovations to make it better. The Slums is the old part of the city, majority of the rest of Osiris is all new. If I had to take a guess I would say that after being renamed to Osiris, the city would have to be close to sixty years old by now. Why do you ask?"

[Bernard]

“ Why do you ask?"
Bernard’s face scrunched as he searched for the words to answer Bianca’s inquiry..
“It was just a hunch really” Bernard began still processing the complexity of the information they had uncovered.

“ The Egyptians considered their god Osiris the underworld agency that granted all life. The naming of the city had to carry with it some significance. Condidering a multibillion dollar corporation such as Hydra doesn’t just open its doors on some remote little island in the middle of the South Pacific on a whim. The needed to hide something. It HAD cloning and Hydra’s Zenith Project written all over it. What is even more amazing was that they were able to keep control of it throughout the corporate wars.”

“The safe house is a good idea, but first we have to make sure we can’t be followed. If what our technical friend here holds true we still have a RDFI device to take care of before we go into hiding. Unfortunately the data uplink in question is right here with us so it may already be too late. “

The Sensitive already knew the hacker was close to the edge and this news would only push him further“Decker! Get it together man.” Bernard snapped in a hushed forceful tone trying to reel the paranoid hacker back in. “Is the rest of our discovery safe to transport?”