Hacker: CF_Dogcatcher
Region: Application City
Duel Disk: MinionCall A (1), Squad Summon S (1), Squad Summon S (1), Recovery 10 (1), Atk+10 (1), CallChiptune (0)
Other: A dastardly hacker is loose in Application City! Squads of Viri roam the alleyways, avoiding corporate security with inexplicable ease! What will happen to this once peaceful city?
For the first time in over a year, Bailey's avatar returns to Application City. It's a sight to bring back memories... few of them good.
No one pays much attention to what seems like just another employee walking down the city roads even as her form blurs when CF_Dogcatcher deploys a personal veil and turns into one of the back alleyways. Discretely bypassing the tattoo bearing GangMinions in the backstreets it doesn't take long for her to reach her target. A quick MinionCall A allows the local viruses to be subdued or driven off, and soon Bailey is descending into the basement of one of the large and yet hollow buildings in the big city.
Looking down at the exposed vertebra of the Network Backbone, Bailey gives a brief smile before planting her seed.
As the parasitic vines sprout and form into their blossom gates, the Firmament has a firm route into the depths of Application City.
While unable, or at least wise enough not to, march troops through the main city streets, smaller strike teams of officer lead CarbineMinion.exe programs filter through the backstreets and begin subduing the local HeelNavi gangs. Soon the backstreets are whispering of a new force in town, one that plays hardball. The larger gangs begin to take notice, though only probing strikes take place between the Firmament and these pre-existing forces so far, skirmishes between CarbineMinions and tommygun bearing GangMinions that find themselves sharply cut off as the more successful raids are responded to with replica viruses summoned from Bailey's chip library. In response, a few gang outposts go mysteriously silent as they find themselves devastated by the few Chamelee.mon packs CF_Dogcatcher was willing to deploy into the city where she'd have to keep a close eye on them.
Despite these probes, the other gangs fail to notice the importance of the semi-mobile vines growing across the back ends of the big application stores on the main streets, delicate looking tendrils growing through the walls to tap into the datastreams within, vampiric taproots tying themselves into the local datanet and giving CF_Dogcatcher a thousand disposable access points to the data-sphere, each individually minor but adding up into something respectable.
Though the roots are yet young, the Firmament has made good on its chance to grow into Application City. Bailey warns the rest of the group that further expansion will likely be more difficult, requiring clashes with more built up criminal forces or risking exposing their existence to corporate security forces now that they've consumed what no-program's land was available for this initial growth stage.
+1 Control in Application City for the Firmament.Hacker: DJ King Cabaret
Region: Archival Sediment
Duel Disk: ADI - Vivi_Paltest.dat (4), Atk+10 (1), CallChiptune (0)
Other: Meanwhile, an unlicensed concert is held in the Archival Sediment. Why are these crowds of Viri- and the disturbing Naga leading them- so eager to cause a havoc? Could this be a distraction whilst other viri unearth long-forgotten relics!?
Arriving from a long forgotten link to Application City, the DJ King soon sets his forces to fortifying and reinforcing an appropriately stable seeming cavern as Vivi busies herself searching through the Sediment for 'interesting programs'. As the myriad of small passages are blocked off, and secure gates installed in the bigger openings, the first Recycling Forge goes live and groups of CarbineMinion programs lead by Officers set out, following paths marked by scouts dispatched in the original arrival to this zone.
While a sprawling maze their seems to be little active hostiles here, and what there is is mostly outdated and weak, viruses driven down here by failure to adapt, or random independent archivist-archeologists whom are bypassed or driven away as seems best. More risky is the omnipresent chance of a cavern collapse, or a tunnel finding itself flooding as the tide of the Sea shifts above and water leaks down through the sediment.
Still, little is not none, and Wyrms and CarbineMinions alike find themselves dispatched against predatory cave fish crawling across the ground on tank-tread fins with cannon-barrel eyestalks, blind-wormsnake monsters with paralyzing screams, and pale cyclopean giants with laser-shooting cyborg eyes. Vivi soon occupies herself with purging the nests of predatory bat-planes with radar dish heads that emit disorienting pulses which infest these caves, and is later seen sporting a new necklace with useful sensory powers.
As time goes on, safe(r) caverns are found, and semi-stable routes between them mapped as foundation-bearing spikes of advertisementium harvested from Application City are brought in and used to reinforce bunker-caverns for long term stability. Additional Recycling Forge are set up in secondary caverns to trawl the long lost data for anything valuable as well as allowing the production of additional viri on site.
Soon the DJ King has mapped out this corner of the Sediment, aided by his ground penetrating concerts providing useful exploratory data about the hollows and paths, and is fast establishing the infrastructure to plunge further into its depths, deeper in the past and farther away from the sea above. Vivi herself has not found much foes worth her attention, but her collecting habits have left her well able to search through the lost data for anything she considers of interest, and she's quite enjoyed this chance to expand her collection.
The Datasphere has been mostly quiescent, but that very state of dormancy makes it hard to work with such that the DJ King describes it as trying to code with a keyboard of molasses. Perhaps a more skilled hacker would do better with that, but it seems to be a feature of this zone that one must be aware of and will hinder the deployment of battlechips here.
+1 Control in Archival Sediment for the Firmament.