ZionOS ccc9 Friday, October 17, 2008
##Establishing Secure Communications Link Please Wait....## .. ... .... ##Secure Link Established## //Incoming Transmission// //Transmission: Story Summary// //ID: MXO chapter 11.2.4 Story Summary // ##Connection Established## Zionites looking for the cause of bluepills dropping dead across the city found Danielle Wright, examining a bluepill whom she addressed by a reference number--0026:05:0149:032--before the bluepill dropped dead. A red pill trace program run on another such body turned up a pod location at which most of the adjacent pods were empty. Suspecting that Wright was systematically eliminating the people housed in that ring of pods, Zion tried to locate a survivor inside the simulation, but found their home guarded by Machines.
The Machines surrounded the pod tower with a heavy Sentinel guard, and took one of the surviving occupants of the devastated pod ring, Imelda Kroller, into protective custody after discovering that the biological interface program had moved into her body in the pod, where it took over her somatic nervous system. As Wright closed in on Kroller inside the simulation, the Machines suddenly lost contact with her pod's reporting system; Kroller's RSI said "impossible," then vanished. The Machines reported that her pod had obeyed an unauthorized request to reinitialize her RSI.
Merovingian operatives used the reference number Wright had let slip to Zion to track down Kroller's pod: the number was Machine pod serial format, with the third part, 149, indicating the ring in which that bluepill's pod had been situated on the tower, likely the same ring in which Kroller's pod was located. Persephone overrode the Merovingian's plan to hunt down the local pod caretaker program, saying that she, a caretaker program before her exile, would handle it herself. Persephone succeeded in taking control of Kroller's pod, forcing it to relocate Kroller to a safe place inside the simulation, but was heavily damaged by Machine defensive routines while doing so.
The Merovingian, irked by his wife's headstrong behavior and apparent lack of consideration for her own preservation, received some good news from the General, who reported that his men had located and salvaged an unusual android body from the wreckage of an advanced fighter craft they had come across on their way back from the Machine no-fly zone.
E Pluribus Neo operatives located and defended a denizen of pod ring 149, Daryl Chester, from Danielle Wright, but after a long chase through the city, during which Wright's progress was slowed significantly due to attacks by Machine operatives and others, Wright caught up to Daryl and crushed his RSI. See the Live Event Thread here.
Cryptos and Veil accompanied Cypherite operatives during some R&R at Club Noir, briefly interrupted by an EPN attack. See the Live Event Thread here.
Persephone had Merovingian operatives help her reach a Machine control terminal, where she made another attempt to save Imelda Kroller by manipulating the woman's pod controls. Machine defenses prevented this, however, and Persephone, still very pale from her previous attempt, was wounded by a Machine counter-attack, escaping thanks to valiant defense by some of the operatives. Afterwards, she and the Merovingian held an angry exchange of words in which he accused her of acting foolishly and irresponsibly, and she rejected his callous attitude toward the lives of the humans plugged into the Matrix. See the Live Event Thread here.
The Machines, having re-established their connection with Kroller's pod, located her RSI in Club Kaos. Kroller proved unresponsive to all but direct visual stimuli; eventually, operative movements caught her attention, just as Danielle Wright arrived outside the club. Kroller uttered the words "oh god," but followed the body of operatives outside. A savage exchange of hacks between Wright and the operatives followed, with Wright just managing to crush her attackers. Wright then approached Kroller and compressed her RSI, apparently killing her. Wright told the reassembling operatives that by doing so, she had released the interface from Kroller's body, back into the simulation, where she had no doubt she would catch it eventually. See the Live Event Thread here.
EPN operatives fought Cypherites, obtaining information about a Cypherite plan to put those bluepills who'd survived Wright's attacks on ring 149 firmly back to sleep, since some of them had begun showing increased signs of rejecting the simulation since the attacks. See the Live Event Thread here.
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