<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/a0/Leotard_and_Lace_profile.jpg)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Antimony</strong> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243890.msg12052526#msg12052526)</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Context</strong></td><td>Zhang's Augmentation Parlor, Zhang's Office</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tagging</strong></td><td>Disassembler Swarm, Open</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Fate Points</strong></td><td>1</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Stats</div><div class="spoiler_body"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Ego Stress</strong></td><td>1(X) 2(X) 3( ) 4( )</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Morph Stress</strong></td><td>1( ) 2(X) 3( )</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Muse Stress</strong></td><td>1( ) 2( )</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Mild Consequence (2)</strong></td><td>---</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Moderate Consequence (4)  </strong></td><td>---</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Major Consequence (6)</strong></td><td>---</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><hr/>As Antimony had hoped, using her powers to turn the Cartel underlings against Kast made for an excellent distraction, and threw the entire battlefield into confusion.  In the turmoil, Hachi was able to score a devastating blow against Kast, but the Extropian himself quickly decided that discretion was the better part of valor, and activated a hidden security feature on the desk.<br/><br/>A canister dropped from the ceiling and quickly disgorged a nanoswarm, and the first hypothesis that crossed her mind was that it was a disassembler nanoswarm, specifically released to both destroy incriminating evidence and to cover an escape.  The hypothesis was quickly confirmed correct when the disassembler nanites began to eat into her skin, but rather than backing away from the swarm, the AI chose to rush into it, her hands and arms bleeding in several places as she reached out for a specific item on the desk.<br/><br/>Kast seemed unusually well aware of the layout and security features of the office.  That was... troubling, or perhaps a vital clue to what role he was playing in this whole affair.  Either way, it was clear that he had acquired a great deal of information that she did not like him having, and some of the ways that he could have acquired that information were very worrisome.  He might have known how easily she was getting Zhang to reveal confidential information because he had compromised the security on the tacnet that she had set up, for example.  Perhaps she was simply being paranoid, but as her hands reached out for the item on the desk, the AI gave the mental command to her own mesh inserts to disconnect from the tacnet.  If he was watching them that way, then she did not want him to see what she was about to do next.<br/><br/>As for the item she was reaching for?  While she was busy 'entertaining' Zhang, Antimony had not been idle.  She had not allowed herself to be caught up in the throes of pleasure, and she had remained fully aware of her surroundings at all times.  She had also taken the time to make a full list of each of the items on the desk while she was busy having intercourse atop it, and so she was aware of a single, very special item that could be used to destroy the disassembler nanoswarm.<br/><br/>As soon as she had her hands on the EMP grenade she had been reaching for, Antimony hit the activation switch.  And just like that, the nanoswarm died in a furious storm of electrical activity.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body">Defense rolls again:<br/><br/><strong>Athletics:</strong> 1 + 0 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=86486) = <strong>1</strong><br/><br/>There goes the 2-stress box on my Morph Stress track.  Next, as we worked out in the OOC thread, I'm disconnecting from the tacnet, then spending a fate point to have a convenient EMP grenade on hand that I can detonate. ^^</div></div>