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[Empiricist]

"What? No units should be doing that. What's Black?"

[USEC_OFFICER]

"What? No units should be doing that. What's Black?"

"Well they are. Don't ask me how, I ain't a networker. And Black stands for Code Black, the highest threat level the monitoring servers have. Won't be very long before the Central Government sends in something nasty to check things out. Now I'm Avatar and I've done nothing wrong, so I'll be okay. But by the sounds of things you're still wet behind the ears, so I'd scram before they find you. Just some friendly advice."

[Empiricist]

"What are the white chess-themed programs? Are they examples of those?"

[USEC_OFFICER]

"What are the white chess-themed programs? Are they examples of those?"

"Nah, they're just defunct security programs running about. Their court is to the south of here if you're curious. You'll know if you encounter a Central Government security program. They've got oodles of unique certificates and identifiers to let you know who they are. Of course if you're close enough to read them then it's too late. They've got bleeding-edge weaponry and sniffers and won't stop till they smash you to bits. Don't think that you can escape to your MagiNet either. The Central Government may suck at the... Err, they may be beholden to whatever corporations own your servers, but they hate you girls with a passion for some reason. Why else did MagiNet 4 receive so many surprise inspections before they finally launched the thing?"

((God good, I can really ramble, can't I?))

[Empiricist]

"They can stop us from returning to base? How do you know so much about this anyway?"

[USEC_OFFICER]

"They can stop us from returning to base? How do you know so much about this anyway?"

"I have no idea whether they can stop you or not, but I do know they can follow you back to base. Of course the last time they tried that MagiNet 2 had to be completely wiped, but I figure they've just gotten more sneaky about the whole thing. The newspapers and rumour mills are always full of you girls getting into some kind of trouble or another and I doubt that the Central Government would give up so easily. The only other programs that can trip Black are top grade viruses, and the government Avatars would risk brain-death to take those things down."

[Empiricist]

"I think we encountered some viruses as well, what do the top grade ones look like?"
Sakura-chan relays the data to HQ.

[USEC_OFFICER]

"I think we encountered some viruses as well, what do the top grade ones look like?"

"No clue, and I hope to never see them. Definitively big and nasty though. I've heard of worms becoming large enough to trip Black, and it wasn't too long ago that Mexico was brought to its knees by a trojan. For the most part they're pretty rare though. Or at least rare in the parts monitored by the Central Government."

Sakura-chan relays the data to HQ.

You quickly receive an email from your Mission Coordinator.

Spoiler: Email (click to show/hide)

To: Sakura-Chan

Mission Control has known about this information for a long time. Our sniffers report no mobilization of Central Government security forces or anything else that would seriously compromise your mission. Please continue your work at once.

From: Suzuki-Sensei

[Empiricist]

Sakura-chan acknowledges the email. An if statement somewhere in her registering it. Statements from command are always correct, therefore the mission can proceed as per usual.
"Where would Verfluchts fit in?"

[USEC_OFFICER]

"Where would Verfluchts fit in?"

"I don't know. Nobody seems to know anything about those damned things. Uh, pardon my language, but they just showed up out of nowhere one day. At least they aren't terribly tough to fight."

[Empiricist]

Sakura-chan freezes. She was getting overridden by her company, nothing major that required withdrawal, just a manual addition of something to sales.innocence.banned_words

She is now incapable of outputting the string "verflucht" due to it potentially making her seem less innocent and potentially vulgar to potential clients who understand german.
"Okay, did you get a good look at the other units who came here?"

[USEC_OFFICER]

"Okay, did you get a good look at the other units who came here?"

"What other units?"

[Empiricist]

"The MagiNet units who were here."

[USEC_OFFICER]

"The MagiNet units who were here."

"Oh, right. Well they were led by a girl named Marcy something or other. She was carrying around a bunch of explosives and rigged up all the traps around here, so blame her if you trip one. One of the girls wasn't too much different from you, while one was decked for combat and the fourth was kinda between the two. Their names were... Hina-chan, Ren-something and Erica, I think. They were in and out pretty fast and I wasn't paying much attention to them. Sorry about that."

[Empiricist]

"That's okay, you've been a great help to us all. Which direction did they go?"