I understand.
Lately...I guess it's just the stress getting to me, causing me to probe for any bit of viable information. I also guess it's my mindset right now, I can't work well when aiming blindly.
You're both right. I have been too jumpy and brash at times...
She raised her hand from the wristpad before looking at the two, they were staring back at her. Reading their messages, she could already see their expressions - concern.
Back to business.
P-Box protocol may relate to the lockdown procedure, given that...I've just set off an anomaly back there. I don't think we'll be escaping by the way, unless we return the base to it's original safe state.
Which...
She hesitated before tapping once more. ...leads me to my first query.
Who will go back down and who will guard Charro and Mesk here? Wait, Mesk seems to be fine guarding himself. I can carry Charro with, so nobody has to go take sentry duty. Well, if orders precede. But...
"Where is the delete button here?!"
...redact those two sentences there.
I'll be waiting up here. Perhaps scouring the fourth floor for anything useful and leave the rest to you two.
Take my Sabre, Jim, if you're going with.
Follow whatever command they may give then begin searching the fourth floor for anything that could help in electronic work - like a portable hacking device or power source or basically anything that would help our situation like a musical chip to wile away the time safely. Beginning with the Materials Management, Manufacturing, Data Processing and secondary computer stations in that order.
Didn't Bishop tell you to stay where you are? You're on the 1st floor right now.
So the door can't be melted. What about the walls? Jim thought, turning his attention to them. Probably the same case. It would be a bit useless - but probably true - if the walls would melt while the door stood up to the heat. He sent a message to the team.
Right. Maybe I can brute force hack this door open; just hook me into the control panel, and I'll see if I can do it. I'm not certain on all of this platform's capabilities, so hopefully this is possible. But just in case, Bishop, you may want to go back down to shut the machine down or whatever it is that needs to be done. Fey, you go with him. I'll keep Mesk and Charro with me; I can get them both to the shuttle if necessary, and I'll message you if I manage to open the doors before you do.
19-3
Jim attempted to hack the door by plugging into it (assuming he has a sort of cable that can do that, but come on, John Connor could hack ATMs in 199X; surely the technology put into Jim is way better than that 
).
You look at the control panel a moment. There's a port of some kind on it, but you don't have the cable needed to interface with it. The panel as no wireless receiver either.
Bishop nodded, thankful for her compliance and understanding. He was worried the worm would take control, but it seems she was still in charge, for now at least.
Good to hear that. I'll head downstairs right now and get this damn thing open. Hang tight people, I'll be right back.
Get everyone out of the elevator, including the HDDSM and then head back down to the main computer as fast as possible and look for a way to open the main door.
You shoo Feyri out of the elevator before heaving charro's corpse onto mesk's cart. You push them and the HDDSM out and hit the button marked "5". You tap your foot anxiously as the elevator descends. 39 minutes. You're wasting time arguing with feyri. Once the elevator reaches it's destination you sprint to the platform and try to relax as it takes faaaar to long to descend. You have to get out of here soon. That hour deadline is deceptive. With travel time to push the hddsm back to the ship, get it loaded, get yourselves into stasis and for the ship to blast off you've probably got 15 minutes less time then the clock says.
You reach the bottom and charge on out all the way to the main computer.
[Aux:3]
God damn it where is that thing. 37 minutes.
[Aux:4]
It's gotta be in this directory...right? 35 minutes.
[Aux:4]
Come on, god damn it, it's gotta be here. You just saw the last time you were here! 33 minutes.
[Aux:6]
There it is! You slam on the keys, typing as fast as you can, lifting the p-box protocols and opening the outer doors. You breathe a sigh of relief when the lights suddenly go out. The system is rebooting. You check the screen. 20 minutes till reboot is complete...looks like you're taking the ladder. 31 minutes remain.
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