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[Tiruin]

So... Can I sense any electrical pulse relating to the door (mine or Scarlet's)?

Is our comms with the reunion all blocked?

not with my note I can see that our comms to you are OK, but unsure if the reception back is the same though.

[Powder Miner]

>body fluid reclamation on a desert world
THE
      SPICE
               MUST
                        FLOW

[lawastooshort]

My initial thought, besides durrrr/bugger, is to see if Aubrey can pick open the door, cloak the time it takes to alert Khate and the reunion and request Kesari megaspams the station's systems, and then see if she can also free Scarlet, preferably electronically, although by then i imagine she will be under lethal fire. So not ideal. Although perhaps she could also overload the lights to make things a bit more even, but then perhaps they can see in the dark.

Alternatives are 1/ waiting 2/ seeing if we can talk our way out.

Thoughts?

[Draignean]

So... Can I sense any electrical pulse relating to the door (mine or Scarlet's)?

Is our comms with the reunion all blocked?

Comms are cut, though Aubrey might be able to make a hole large enough to a get a small message out. Your room is isolated.

You can probably sense the door electronics very faintly due to its intimate proximity.

[lawastooshort]

Draignean: Sorry, are Aubrey and Scarlet in the same room?? Is there door electrical or are there mechanical bits accessible that could be picked?

King Murdoch: Do you agree that probably we should break out of here? If yes, do you agree that we should probably also try to get the object? Or just flee?

Also Draignean: is this feasible as the beginning of a breakout plan:
1 - test to see if Aubrey can sense the door electronics, get an idea of how possible it is to mindhack them.
2 - try to make a hole in the comms block to communicate with our comrades to 1/ alert Khate to stop watching ultraviolence and come and do some instead in exactly 60 seconds 2/ ask Kesari to jam all  communications and all possible computer systems on the Flounder extrahard in exactly 57 seconds 3/ warn Scarlet of plan if she is not with Aubrey.
3 - within 57 seconds after that to hack open if possible - or pick open, if mechanically accessible - the door, open it 1-2 seconds before Khate appears, cloak for the few seconds it takes to get to the control desk, open Scarlet's door if she is not with Aubrey, close all doors into our immediate area as soon as Khate arrives, let Scarlet and Khate ultraviolence the enemy.
4 - afterwards we either need to flee with i.e. Boris getting a bore jump calculated for as far as we can go in the few seconds we have to calculate it, or we need to fight our way to the object and back with Khate, which I prefer as a possibly stupid option.

I mean is it feasible from a skills/technological point of view re: mindhack etc.

Comrades: would welcome your input.

[Draignean]

Draignean: Sorry, are Aubrey and Scarlet in the same room?? Is there door electrical or are there mechanical bits accessible that could be picked?

Yes, and both. The door has mechanical and electrical components. Automated lockpicks can handle a bit more than just a mechanical lock.

Plan is feasible, difficult in places, but it is within the realm of possibility.

[Dwarmin]

Comrades: would welcome your input.

This has nothing to do with science. No input from Sadish needed. Though even she would have wondered why you walked into such an obvious trap.

That being said, it's likely we stepped into a big mess anyway. You're almost certainly not the only people being held prisoner. Maybe we can liberate the station!

Unless they killed everybody...

[Chevaleresse]

Scarlet's definitely ready to break out. Just have Aubrey let her know so she can get her gun assembled.

[lawastooshort]

Okay, then the plan will be to:

1 – tell Scarlet to prepare to escape – and if necessary subdue our fellow inmate, but preferably get him to tell Aubrey how to operate the control/reception desk and then shut up.
2 - test to see if Aubrey can sense the door electronics, get an idea of how difficult it is to mindhack them and also assess possible difficulty of picking the door. Estimate the time it will take, call this target time T.
3 - try to make a hole in the comms block to communicate with our comrades to:
a/ alert Khate to stop watching ultraviolence and to arrive at exactly T+2
b/ ask Kesari to jam all  communications and all possible computer systems on the Flounder extrahard in T-2 (unless this will interfere with unlocking the door/door opening for Khate’s arrival, in which case do at T+4)
4 – Aim to unlock door at T, open it at T+1, cloak for the few seconds it takes to get to the control desk
5 – T+2 Khate arrives
6 – T+3 using the reception/control desk or otherwise mindhacking if possible, close all doors into our immediate area. Then try to shut down the doors stationwide to stop all unwanted movement, hoping that Aubrey can mindhack appropriate doors open.
7 – Khate and Scarlet subdue area.

Then we’ll see?

[lawastooshort]

Eep, I am not a very puzzly type of player, I'll have to think about this before giving an answer

Edit: hypothesis: a mercy group large enough to field 4 shuttles and leave enough men to control a space station has taken over the Flounder. Ruthless enough to take it over but not so much as to kill the receptionist, yet.

Alternatives I think are much worse.


I'll go for the puzzle then Draignean and revise my message when I can.

[Draignean]

You have your puzzle, feel free to ask questions about my discount Samantha Carter explanation, I was in a bit of a rush.

[Tiruin]

Eek, timelapses! ._.

I'll assume that my message was something retconned(?) before the away team got into a message cutoff zone. And then post in the IC >_<
Did...is there anyone contacting me at the present in-game? :x I'm a bit off because of lots of things that would be resolved better come the weekend.

Spoiler: Abbreviated Puzzle info (click to show/hide)

1. There are ten stabilizers, each composed of ten blocks.
2. The bases charge of each stabilizer and each block is known, and every block has a base charge equal to every other block.
2. Aubrey can overcharge exactly one stabilizer, evenly distributing the overcharge to each of its blocks, resulting in them being 0.237 units higher than baseline.
3. However, which stabilizer is overcharged is not known.
4. Aubrey can run exactly one test on any number of blocks from any combination of the ten stabilizers. (7 blocks from stabilizer 1, 2 from s5, 8 from s4)

How can she use this one test to know which stabilizer is overcharged so she can sabotage its regulator and induce an overload ripple in the suppression field?

My puzzles senses...they're so itchy, and I can't scratch them.

[lawastooshort]

I am far too tired for this. Hmm.

[IronyOwl]

My puzzles senses...they're so itchy, and I can't scratch them.

Same.

[lawastooshort]

Wait, I wonder if I am overthinking this due to being so tired and busy and wanting to go home.

1 stabiliser will be overcharged, with every block in it equally overcharged.

So surely the 1 test to do will be 1 block from stabiliser 1, 2 from stabiliser 2, and so on to 10 from stabiliser 10.

There will be a result 0.237 x N high, where N = the stabiliser number?

Because if the result is 5 x 0.237, then it will mean there are 5 blocks I've tested which are overloaded, which means it will be stabiliser 5. Right?