Log:A Breach in the Case, Scene 9

A Breach in the Case 2016/02/18 Breach Siege Indira Quiet

9 Indira's eyes lift from the computer terminal and look over in Rick's direction as she finishes copying all the files releated to Rick Mason and Breach onto her drive. After getting copies of everything on Rick, she starts checking on the security systems to make sure nobody else has accidentally triggered an alarm.

Completing her downloads rapidly accelerates Indira's decryption protocols. Less than a minute after she finishes browsing the console and the network and downloading an absurdly large amount of data pertaining to Rick "Breach" Mason, her decryption systems ding again. Her holographic display has turned a crisp, sharp shade of vermillion and is quickly unfolding ties into the local security network.

Dozens of video panes start popping up around Indira, audio accompanying only a handful of them, with dozens of different angles on various and sundry parts of the installation. Indira gets a good view of herself and Rick from no less than five different angles each. A handful of panes pop up, but show no data save the words 'RESTRICTED FEED'. That may or may not have to do with where Griffin and Quiet have Buffalo Shuffled off to, Indira cannot say for certain without spending time to try to figure out what manner of restriction has been placed on the feed.

Breach continues to stand overwatch at the door. Well, okay, technically Rick is crouched down low and waiting patiently for someone to enter his immediate butt-kicking range. That's sort of like standing overwatch. He glances back toward Indira, seemingly aware of her looking toward him. After a few seconds of exchanged silence, Rick returns to watching the doorway.

When it comes to manipulating the security system, Indira has quite a lot of options available to her. Between the Omni-Access Systems in her suit and the decrypted security controls already in the system, Indira could get up to all kinds of shenanigans.

Indira reviews the footage, frowning slightly as she notices they're already possibly being spotted. The first thing she tries to do is disable the alarm systems to prevent security from raising the alarm throughout the facility. While she focuses on that, rather than raise her voice to Breach, she reaches out with her mind to him. ((I've finally managed to get control of their systems. I don't know where Griffin and Quiet are now, but we may have been spotted by the security cameras. There are several in this room alone.))

Breach's head jerks hard in several different directions as Indira's voice sings out in his head. The Undead Soldier takes a few seconds to catch on to what's going on, his lips pursing into a vague frown as he glances over his shoulder toward Indira. She can feel his eyebrow quirking upward in curiosity as he inquires, (( It all depends on whether or not they have anyone manning the automated security systems right now. Maybe we'll be lucky and they're too busy to monitor the cams... ))

Indira, quite by accident, disables the active alarm systems. There is going to be a very confused security engineer at the end of this adventure, trying to figure out what exactly her advanced alien hacking software did to the system.

As Indira continues to work on subverting the security system, she notices that there are a lot of active security measures spread throughout the warehouse that appears to be the conventional entrance to the facility. Gradually those security measures thin out as one descends deeper into the subterranean portions of the facility - specifically that main hallway through which the team first accessed this site. If she likes, Indira can play with the "user preferences" of the active security systems in the facility. Or she could try to do something about all of those cameras.

Indira smiles a little to herself as her own software pulls up information on the security measures, including the user preferences. The first thing to do would be to make sure they weren't caught. She raises her hand and taps the display holo-panes displaying a video feed of the room, selecting them all.

((If fortune shines upon us, maybe. But let's make sure they don't attend to them later.)) She quicky scrubs backwards through the footage to before they arrived. Her systems record several seconds of the empty room, then create loop footage of the empty room and feed it back into the security systems to mask their presence.

((I'm unable to find Griffin or Quiet in the feeds. Strange...I can't find their location. But that's probably a good thing.))

Quiet has disconnected.

Video footage is scrubbed clean and replaced with a short loop of pre-BREACH footage from the appropriate camera. Indira's kung fu is strong this night as she operates to keep the team from being detected both during and after the facts of their infiltration. Of course, such measures take time; Indira is only just finishing her initial security re-organization as Griffin and Quiet gain access to their prize down in the sarcophogus chamber.

Let's check in on those crazy kids, speaking of Quiet and Griffin, before we miss something epic.

Griffin makes the universal symbol for 'give me a lift up' to Quiet.

She engages her sweet GRAVMAS system and lifts him up to the console overhead.

For the record, the Master Control Console - or whatever our friends in Team Sundial may call the console Griffin is trying access - is a perfectly normal console mounted to a perfectly normal security tower built into the wall of the sarcophogus chamber. It is approximately 10m above the chamber floor, permitting personnel on the tower a virtually unrestricted view of the sarcophogi filling the chamber.

Quiet engages another sub-system in her GRAVMAS gear and a faint purple distortion fills the air around Griffin. Within seconds, Griffin is being dragged through the air to land nimbly upon the tower. Gravitational distortion sure beats climbing architectural ladders or accessing hidden staircases, that's for damn sure. Once he's on the platform, Griffin quickly settles into place at the console and activates its monitoring service.

That is a lot of people being monitored. Griffin and Quiet may not be able to evacuate the chamber by themselves. On the other hand, Griffin Freeman is on the case! He sets about gaining a proper understanding of the computer at whose keyboard he now sits, gradually developing an appreciation for the formatting and organizational schematic of the "Patient Database".

It might interest Griffin (or Quiet) to know that there is a small icon flashing indicating an unresolved security remote access request. One wonders who could have possibly asked to remotely access the master control console from a security terminal in the facility proper...

Griffin fumbles at the advanced mid-21st Century console. And by pure chance accepts Indira's security request. He curses totally unaware of who made the request.

"Shit... .Q- we might have eyes on us... I have no idea why I'm the one up here." He grumbles, feeling guilty for messing up.

BLIP!

A teeny tiny video pane pops up in the corner of the control console. Indira's face immediately fills the pane as Griffin continues to fumble with the system.

A teeny tiny video pane pops up within the corners of those 'RESTRICTED FEED' panes. Griffin's face immediately fills the tiny panes as Indira plays with the security systems. It's also worth noting that the blacked out screens are replaced by feeds of the vast, unsettling sarcophogus chamber as seen from above.

"Oh, Mr. Freeman, there you are," Indira says softly in that smooth, strange accent of hers. An accent that was missing during her mental communique with Rick. "What have you and Quiet gotten up to?" Her eyes drift to the other screens floating around her to view the sarcophogi. "Kaldri bosh...there are so many..."

"I wish I knew- this place is... its weird ma'am." Griffin says with a grateful tone, "I gotta say, it's good to see you on the line. There was a big door closed behind us, I'm not sure I can get us back out of here. But Q & I want to see if we can free these other Rickcicles."

"Rick...cicles...?" Indira straightens her head in curious noncomprehension and looks back at Griffin's screen. "There are others trapped below? Are they...still living?"

Indira quickly begins to tap out at a few other floating controls, navigating through menus presented to her. "I will see what I can do about opening the door. But how will we get so many out of here?"

(( ... They've got clones of me on ice down there? ))

Breach looks over at Indira as he hears Griffin's voice. Though she cannot physically see his expression, the mental connection suggests his expression is both terrified and severe.

Indira glances through her hovering holo-interface to regard Breach. ((Is that what the -cicles suffix means? Then I think so.)) She doesn't seem too upset or worried about that. Cloning technology is something very common in the Andromeda Galaxy. Not always accepted on some planets, but it's not something feared by most.

(( Yes. -cicles is a reference to icicles or popsicles. It means that whatever it is attached to is "on ice". ))

Breach pauses a moment. He turns toward the door for a second before snapping his head back toward Indira.

(( Focus! They have /CLONES/ of /ME/ down there? ))

Indira ponders the relevance of clones and ice when Breach mentally snaps on her. She winces a little and sets her eyes on Griffin. "Are those clones of Rick in those capsules?"

"Clones? Why would you... oh- Rick-cicles. No I mean other guys, ex-military in techno-coffin's like we found Ricktimus Prime before- I'm not sure how many there are. I didn't count. It was more than I can carry in a single pass. We might have to wake them." Griffin Explains to Indira fighting the urge to chuckle but his mouth betrays him.

"Yes, our Rick would be Prime," Indira explains the clone sequence, not realizing it's modern slang equivalent. Hopefully Rick doesn't know, either, or else he'd think Indira was complimenting him. "We might be able to wake them. But that could be...chaotic."

((Not clones, Rick. You are the one and only you still.))

Physically and mentally, Breach lets out a long sigh. He actually relaxes for a good thirty seconds after Griffin indicates that he hasn't found any Undead Clones. Not that Griffin and Quiet have actually inspected that many sarcophogi yet... Who knows who or what could be stored down there?