<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, Front Hallway</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tagging</strong></td><td>Anima, Hachi, Tacnet, Open</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Fate Points</strong></td><td>2</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(X)</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/>Antimony didn't answer Hachi at first, coordinating carefully with her more computer-oriented allies and their muses to carefully search through every inch of their encrypted communications network for signs of intrusion.  Thankfully, it turned out that they were clean and, with a sigh of relief, she logged back on to the tacnet, letting her visual and audio feeds flow through once more.<br/><br/><hr/><strong>Antimony:</strong>@Team; Our comms are clean.  It's safe to talk.<br/><hr/><br/>And, with that report delivered, she focused back on the conversation at hand, looking between Hachi and Anima as she spoke.<br/><br/>"I think it's safe to say that disassembler swarm gave Hachi and me both a few new holes in our bodies,"  She stated, deciding to answer the questions posed by the octo-doctor first.  She was still bleeding, after all.  "As for clothing, if you can find a long coat of some sort, that would be ideal.  I can make do with stealing somebody's shirt and pants if that's all you can find, though.<br/><br/>"And Hachi..."  Antimony had to pause for a moment to figure out how she was going to respond to her teammate.  Maybe it had something to do with the fact that she had had to push her brain, using her powers in quick succession on one person after another, but right at the moment, she did not feel particularly bothered by the idea of killing the men that she had gone to such trouble to nonlethally subdue and taking their stacks.  It was not even a matter of keeping things secret, though that was certainly something that she was seeing as a good justification for it.  The act itself simply did not bother her at all, at the moment.  It clearly bothered her teammate, however.  "We won't destroy their stacks.  Like Drop said, we can use what resources we have to get their memories edited and get them resleeved, once the mission is complete.  I know it's not ideal, but it's the best that we can offer.  I don't have the ability to just magically erase or alter their memories, and we don't have the time or resources for anything else."<br/><br/>Admittedly, it was a bit disturbing to realize that she was being so cold-blooded on this.  She had always been the type to deliberately avoid violent confrontations in her work, and many of her core programming directives were devoted to seeing to the physical pleasure and emotional well-being of humans and transhumans.  Was this a side-effect of the changes the Exsurgent virus had made to her mental pattern?  Or was the mental exhaustion she felt from how hard she had pushed her mind all that it took to make her become so callous and uncaring?  She did not like the implications of either option, and she soon resolved to do her best to help with getting the Cartel men resleeved, if only as an act of rebellion against this cold, unfeeling mindset she had dropped into.<br/><br/>What was it that Drop had called it?  'The Guilt Tax'?  Not a very apt name, in her case, but she would still do her part to pay it, nonetheless.<br/><br/>And yet, as the alert came in over the tacnet, the hacker sprang into action, reading over the instructions the sniper relayed and moving to pick up a gun from one of the sleeping Cartel members.  A gun that was soon pointed at the head of the man it belonged to.<br/><br/>"...Sorry."  Ah, and there was the guilt.  In a way, it was almost a relief for her when she realized that she could still feel bad about it if she was the one pulling the trigger.<br/><br/><hr/><strong>Antimony:</strong>@Anima; We'll have to put off finding me something to wear for another time, I'm afraid.  Can you extract the mesh inserts of these men, in addition to their stacks, in a reasonable amount of time?  If not, please do what you can to destroy them.<br/><strong>Antimony:</strong>@Anima; There are three more dead men upstairs in Zhang's office, including Zhang himself.  Please see to them, as well.<br/><strong>Antimony:</strong>@Forklift; When you get here in the truck, there are a set of mostly-intact servers in Zhang's office that we need to move down to the truck.  I should be able to help with moving them by the time you arrive.<br/><strong>Antimony:</strong>@Puppeteer; Can you wipe all the footage from the past hour off of every camera in the area?  I'd do it myself, but I'm about to be busy looking into those cameras that we're losing around the meeting site.<br/><hr/><br/>The cameras at the meeting site were going dark, which meant that something was happening.  They needed to find out what, or at least to get more information, and so Antimony was going to do her part to do just that.  Picking up a copy of the exploit software that Puppeteer had helpfully coded up for them, she reached out over the mesh to those cameras that had lost their feed, and began doing her best to covertly access them.<br/><br/>The cameras themselves had not displayed any sort of activity that would indicate that the people on-site were actively destroying them, so far as she could tell, but a saboteur nanoswarm was not the sort of thing that a low-quality surveillance camera would detect in the first place, so that did not rule that possibility out.  If the cameras were simply being taken over, however, then quietly patching back into the feed would give them all a good chance at seeing whatever it was that the people who had blacked them out wanted to keep secret.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body">The roll to check out our comms was listed in the OOC thread, and in addition to that, I'm now making another roll to see if I can covertly regain access to the sensors that are going dark.  I want to get the ability to look through them again without letting whoever might now be in control of them know that I can see through them again.<br/><br/><strong>Infosec:</strong> 4 + 1 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=86689) + 1(cooperation with Muse) + 2(Fresh Exploit Software free invocation) = <strong>8</strong><br/><br/>If that's a tie, I put remaining undetected at a higher priority than getting access to the cameras.  My main goal in all this is actually to try to see if the cameras are still there in the first place, or if they're being physically taken out.</div></div>