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Sixty-Second Explosion

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Oh, COME ON! What the hell. SOS-Brigade! Report in now! Whose bodies are you all in?

[Grunt, grumble, grumble...]

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["Minato" here is chilling in town. Not unusual. Unusual is that he's flopped on a bench looking visibly cheesed off. DO YOU APPROACH IT?]

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Yeah, or maybe you're naturally immune to whatever they did. I mean I've been skipped on a few things before.

That's an interesting theory. The first one I skipped was the thing where people responded to commands automatically... I guess I could be more strong-minded than I realize. I was working on something Naoya suggested I should do, so maybe I was affected without realizing it, but he said I should do it before the experiment started, so I doubt it.

This one... I have no idea what would make someone immune to body switching.

Could be a brainwave pattern thing, right? I mean you happen to have an ESP code ending in a 3 and that makes you immune.

I... guess so? I don't know my... ESP code.

Duh. You're not a telepath.

...Ah. Of course. Is it something I really need to know?

Well it might be important as to how the aliens work here, but it's not as vital as say-

Wait you know computers, right?

I know computers better than anything else. Why?

Good. Meet me in town square, ASAP.

Alright then!

[He's a little confused, but he makes the trek from the complex to the town square. What leader says, goes.]

[GOOD BECAUSE HE WILL BE WAITING THERE. Because God knows he got there ahead of Atsuro]

[Atsuro gives him a wave as he approaches.] So, what did you want to see me about?

[WAVE of course!] Hoy!

[Now wave to the pit which is a little off to the ... well it's a bit out of the way]

You ever wondered about those tunnels?

Yeah, now that you mention it. But I figured pits were generally... not places you should go exploring when you're in a weird place like this.

Well there's a roper-ladder. C'mon.

[And with that. Marching to the pit and urging Atsuro to be the first on the rope ladder to cover the fifteen or so feet down]

[Atsuro heads on down first, moving out of Haruki's way when he reaches the bottom. Lead on, leader.]

[And a little off to the... I think it's the right. Well whatever, the point is he's going to open this door and...!

There's two laptops. Right there and plugged into the wall]

[Atsuro gasps at the sight of the computers. There is a God! And he doesn't hate him! He rushes over to one of them, blowing a little dust from the keyboard. As ecstatic as he is to see them, he needs to know why Haruki brought him here.]

What are these doing here?

These laptops are here to allow us to post on the network thing the journals have a post which is filtered completely away from the Malnos- the Organization that runs the barrier. John left 'em here for us. Naturally though 'cus it's a big secret, no one talks about them.

[A cough to clarify action and then...]

You're going to hack the protection on them.

...You're amazing, Haruki. I'll have them done as quickly as possible. [Laptop number one finishes booting, and a few keystrokes later he's got the command prompt going. He's in reading mode right now, analyzing the specs of the OS they're running on. Once again, not entirely normal by his time's standards, but workable. Principles are always the same, and he just needs to alter his code appropriately. Once he's satisfied with his analysis, he starts testing a few pieces of code he has burnt into his memory, just to see what works and what doesn't.]

[Going by the mod statements The main purpose of these computers here is to run the program which lets you post on

lucetilocked and see the journal posts on the network in a way ultimately similar to how we might on Lj. The thing is, the computer by default is locked to only run that program, with a code hiding the desktop and all that under it. The code locking the thing is supposed to be ridiculously complex, so it's not all that dissimilar to how the COMP functions were locked.

Under that, the OS is unique as you said but in practice the browser isn't all that unlike Windows XP or Vista, and the only programs on it are basic ones like notepad or word or paint or whatever. It also has a wireless signal and can receive other wireless signals (like KAITO got into it) but obviously you can't see them because right now it's locked to merely the journal program.

I am aware this is long and convoluted but I'm following the intel I got off the mods.

Haruki, for his part, is going to lean against the wall there and grunt]

Are we talking a few minutes thing, or a few hours?

[He hesitates before answering Haruki, staring at the readout of code on the screen. The surface protections are fairly easy, but time-consuming. If they're making the protection harder as they go along (which seems appropriately dramatic), this won't be a quick job at all. Not by any means impossible, but he's not going to make Haruki wait here with him.]

Probably a few hours at the least. I'll only know what's on each layer of protection once I get through the one before it. I'll let you know over the journals once I'm done?

[Dramatic, but he expected that, so he nods]

Right. Just don't take these things out of this room.

[And with that, he's going to MANLY PAT Atsuro on the shoulder before shrugging out of the room now that they have an understanding]

[Oh boy manly displays of mutual trust or something like that. DOOT DOOT DOO A BILLION (five or six (if that's cool I dunno how long this stuff takes)) HOURS LATER, he's done.]

Haruki! I'm finished.

[And by now, he's making dinner back home ~~feel free to notice the apron~~. He pauses there before rummaging to find the journal and then talks into it while he stirs this pasta]

Hah. Excellent!

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