I was thinking of the phrase we lie, we cheat, we steal.
Well that's what Jordan's doing. Yeah, yes, yes, the three four
tenants of being a d M. Anyway, you guys are outside and you
see the tower or you see the radio transmitter, Yeah, pond closer.
Look, there's something weird about the metal on it. Man, you really
just can't quite put your hand on it. But there's just the way it
sens, the way the sunlight hits it. Is it supposed to look like
that? We'll figure it out in a minute. All right, Ghosts,
get to work, ice Pick, you're with me, Let's keep overwatch.
I don't want to get snuck up on again. By the way, thanks
for the save back. There no problem on a day's work. True,
nobody likes getting caught with their pants around their ankles. That's what bleach is
for. I gotta shape the AR fifteen that's silenced on it. You know,
it's a lot to take in that you just named it bleach. So
I think I'm just gonna silently nod a couple of times while I process that
information and get to overwatch. It's an hats metaphor, I would say,
it adds stains and then removes them. Anyway, I'm going to start working
on that ink content. Okay, what are you planning? Like, are
you trying to just shut it down the power on that first? I want
to try and see if I can find out what the hell it's doing and
then shut it down. Okay, I think unless you do you have a
play from your playbook you want to use, or otherwise it will be research.
I was gonna bypass, trying to bypass because I imagine this thing is
secured. Cool, yes, real cool for me? Then just strength.
Yes, you have a plus one because of the plant. Yeah, oh
you have the plan. Nice, you're lucky, no problem six and a
one ghost loops up to his name. So yeah. So, like when
you get into the initial interface on it, it's like there's a console just
messily attached to it of all things, almost like a tablet was like crudely
attached to it. And you know, when you tab it, he goes
to the exotic transports and you hit some buttons. You know, you kind
of peaked a pass code that was on the desk while you were going through
it, and you just on a whim type bad bad boy in bing green
light checking more comes in you're in the system. We all right, first
things first, Like I said, I'm going to be taking a look.
What kind of stuff am I seeing here? Like in terms of what's it
like data is getting in right now? You don't know because once you get
past the Exotic Transports interface, it's in characters that you've never seen before.
Like it's not alphanumeric as far as you could tell, there's no like hylogryphics.
Ship gets out in like you know, Chinese characters or like Russian characters
or anything like that. So it's like none of the known alphabets that I
read must have programmed an limics. No, you must keep that in.
Yeah, damn, that's all you get Linux nerds, all right, damn?
Like Lis, okay, thank you. I needed that. You know
that I was having a rough day and that kind of all right. You
know, I'm always here to help. So I mean, the long and
the short of it, Wren, is that you don't know what you're looking
at. You guys. We got a bit of a complication here. What's
that This thing's got an unknown alphabet? What are you talking about? Its
inface? I'm not sure I can actually turn it off. Well, there's
one way I can think of turning it off. But well, yes,
I mean other than the p pew method. What do you mean no known
alphabet? It's got to be in something. I mean, I've seen some
alphabets. This ain't one of them. It's a no box of cereals logical
follows. I mean, I'm not even saying it's in a language that I
don't know. I'm saying it's in a language I've never seen. It's not
a can of soup. It's I'm done, I'm good, thank you,
good night. Can I assess this? I'm thinking it'd be a research more
than an assess All right, cool, I'm gonna roll it, even though
I know I'm gonna fail for flavor. Firstly, to answer your question,
you're cross referencing with you know, and you're using your brain. You know,
your brain computer, it's it goes in the shell hours, right.
You know, you have some augments in there, cross serferencing with, like
you know, the Chinese alphabet, the Russian characters, you know, Latin,
everything that you can think of, and just the characters that are being
displayed on here. It's not lining up with anything. What the hell.
Like you can see maybe some similarities with like ancient Hiergoriphic languages, but it's
not one for one for sure. It's a curveball for you as you're going
through it. Yeah, you see, it's like a purply type of static
kit like twice. So there's like a glitch and then the glitch and anything
you go back to normal. And I'm moving the clock a clock up one
and it's a clock that you don't know about. Oh lock uh. Yeah,
unless they decided to write this code an ancient Sumerian, I can't think
of anything that would even come close to this ciphers. If we can't crack
it, figure out a way to shut this thing down, well, cut
the power then at that point, yeah, I think you could take a
clean slice in the wire here, I can try. Let's see. That
would be unless you can of a move from your infiltrator thing. I think
that's going to be an act under pressure for me. Oh well, I
mean anything in my thing would also be Yeah, now that's fine. Give
me an act under pressure that's still be with the forwards. This is part
of the plan, you know what, No, this is part of the
plan. Yes, that's one forward, Yeah, because it's just another method
of disabling. Oh no, excellent forward hunh oh boy, oh boy,
another one in there. You don't even get into a quarter of the way
in when just an electrical current shoots from let's say, like the cutting implement
you were using. To you there was some sort of security measure that you
weren't aware of, and you get zapped and you take one harm yesh,
You guys are gonna have to figure out another way to cut the wires on
this, or turn off the power or or turn this off in some way.
I think that is a fair time to cut back. We get a
nice little overhead shot of the white wing dove again we're in that top down
view from it, and then the cameras only pans back behind the car to
you as you're bursting through the city respectfully as respectfully as I can. You've
been doing pretty good on the back roads so far, avoiding it, but
unfortunately you can't avoid it. There is at some point on this trip to
get back to Nova Nagasan, you have to hit the freeway, and like
clockwork, as soon as you hit it, or as soon as you get
it in sight, it's them Corny's lid. There's two corn vans on corn
on each side of the exit, blocking entrance to the freeway. Corny,
he's going to talk about how wrestling sucks nowadays. Okay, what do you
do? Do I see anything that I might apply totally not grand theft auto
esque logic too? For example, is there like some construction that I could
appropriate? Is a ramp? Is there something I could use to explode to
blast one of those vans out of the way. So I'm actively assessing my
options, looking for some way to get them out of my way or to
get around them. Well, it's funny that use the word at the skill.
I want you to roll in? Can you roll assess from you?
Oh? Good? Point ha ha okay, edge, here we go.
Oh man, we're rolling good on assess nice if we're gonna roll on,
good on anything? Is it safe to say that the question what is the
best way in, way out, or way past a question that you would
ask in this situation to get past these guys. I believe that's the exact
question I'm asking. Yes, okay, absolutely fair. Now here's the problem
with it is that it's the ramp that's going to lead you onto oncoming traffic
right, you will be driving on the wrong side of the road. Oh
that's nothing, It's fine, and like it's gonna be tight. Like it's
not gonna be This is not gonna be an easy jump. Like I know
that you're very you're believing your skills, but it's not gonna be an easy
jump. But just you think it's just some like maybe a local punk kids.
But they kind of threw what looks like some side construction and some like
shipping containers. They made some rampway. You think they are doing this with
their bikes right, like with bikes as opposed to actual or wheel callers or
all vehicles like you have. But is a makeshift ramp that you think you
can angle onto the oncoming traffic way if you do it right and from where
you're coming from? Oh yeah, are you two more questions if you want
to use them? Oh okay, So if you want me to read them,
Mapagata cooor? What is in control here? Cooor? What is my
biggest threat in the situation? Where kind of gain the most advantage? How
do I avoid trouble or hide? That was blank owner world to me?
What do I notice despite an effort to conceal it. What potential complication do
I need to be wary of? So what do I notice in spite of
something the effort you can seal it. Yes, you're driving toward the ramp
right and past the on ramp right where there's more like a city continues.
Yeah, you could swear there's like a is that a burnt out cop car?
Whoa that has just like debris? Did they just like can shell a
cop car? Huh? Whoa? Is that them? You can't quite tell
if it was them, but they're right next to it and they're kind of
like chilling around it. Okay, that's not like a like this is from
weeks ago burnt out thing. It's like it's smoldering, it's fresh smoke.
It's yes, yes, oh okay. And I think one of the other
questions amounted to, what's the biggest threat, right, what's the biggest threat?
Yeah, the biggest threat, however, it is the truck closest to
the ramp that you eyed. Okay, that truck still has that corn missile
on the top where the other one doesn't. All right, corn missile noted.
I can't believe I said that out loud. I love this game.
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