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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Friadoc" data-source="post: 3299558" data-attributes="member: 5445">Tonight was the second time this week that 'Z' figured out that Cade had been in the building for over 24 hours straight. "You can over do it, Cade," 'Z' said after she told him to go home or she'd lock his accounts. "You won't be good to anyone if you over do it."oO She's right Oo thought Cade as he walked through his apartment door. oO I'm obsessing  OoThe apartment is a modest apartment in Lincoln Park, a top floor corner/tower unit on an old turn of the center stonehouse that was converted into apartments in the young professionals district of Chicago.Cade walks away from the door, which would seem careless if not for the near-silent metal on metal click as the portal locks automatically. An orange cat jumps up on the edge of an oaken framed couch and mews at Cade in greeting."Sorry, Selina," says Cade with a half-smile and a scratch behind her ear. "The numbers got to me, again.""There's gotta be an edge, aside from the 'X' factor," says Cade as he takes a carton of creme from the fridge and pours it into a dish for the matronly feline. As he sets the dish down for Selina, Cade gives her a couple of long strokes on the back before making sure her food dish was full."Still got food in the queue, fat cat," says Cade with a chuckle. One of his first inventions as a kid was an automated food dish that was mostly timed, but had a 'need' feature as well. If Selina meowed a certain amount of times, it would override the time and dispense food, but she could only do it three times in 24 hours. "Spoiled, fat cat."With a freshly poured stout in hand, Cade heads over to his office-away-from-office, which was a wall-length desk that held a trio of trio of monitors attached to a series of computer (all running OSIRS).oO At least she left my access on Oo thought Cade as he pulled up some more of the After Action Reports. Accessing the report on his main screen causes a statistical analysis to pop up on a small, which he looks over at before returning to the main report."It's just a numbers game," says Cade as he rubs his eyes. "There's gotta be a way to beat it, frak!"For days now Cade has been doing one of three things; Reviewing AARs, studying guerrilla and small unit tactics, and working on the only edge he can think of, right now, against the 'Numbers Game' - The Handhelds."We've beat the odds so far, Selina," says Cade as he turns in his chair, taking a long, deep pull off of the beer bottle before continuing. "But, for how long?""Only one in four groups of new recruits avoids a casualty in their first hostile contact, with the next hostile contact taking the odds to one in six." As Cade's eyes pass over the bronze sword mounted on a cherry wood plaque by his bedroom door. "Which means, if you count the Pharaoh in the library, ours odds just got steeper.""I'm not losin' any of them," says Cade after draining the bottle of stout. "Not the kid, the face, doc or the reporter. Not on my watch." With a casual toss, Cade flips the bottle over his shoulder, a tinkling of glass follows the bottles rapid descent into the recycling bucket. "If I gotta die tryin', then I will."In fact, at least as far as his access allows, Cade reads up on their dossiers, again. A casual glance, checking for any updates, or notations that have been added."We're gonna beat the numbers, kitty girl," says Cade with a grin at Selina as he gets an energy drink out of the fridge before turning back to work on some technical write-up for the Handheld. "Even if I gotta spit in the Devil's eye to do it."Looking up for her creme, the orange cat simply mews at her companion, as if telling Cade that there was never any doubt.OOCOver the course of the next month Cade will be spending a lot of time focusing on research into all of the Hoffmann Institute AARs (After Action Reports) that his clearance level allows for, on tactics (mainly focused on small unit and guerrilla tactics), and working on an invention for the team.On the invention, if/when Cade hits a point where he knows he cannot do it alone, or hits a breakthrough and just needs someone to manufacture it, he'll contact the Institute through 'Z'.In fact, Cade will bounce things off of 'Z' from time to time and she is the only person, outside of the core group, that he currently bounces his ideas and thoughts off of. While Cade loves working for the Institute, he is still getting a feel for who he can trust, or should trust his ideas and thoughts with.He does not withhold anything from the Institute, but he is guarded while he works himself through the process.What is the invention?It is a OSIRS-based PDA that works on an encrypted short ranged WiFi ranged and the Hoffmann CellNet that will assist Hoffmann agents investigations through enhanced communications, access to needed OSIRS tools and resources, and miniaturized tools, both add-ons and incorporated.An example, from popular media and culture, are the Atlantean PDAs from Stargate Atlantis.In order to pull this off as quickly as possible, Cade will bring 'Z' on it as soon as possible, right after he has schematics and future development written up on it. Cade will store his original ideas on a secure space on the OSIRS servers, as well as in archives, in order to cover his a$$ - basically, it shows that he was not developing something with Hoffmann's resources with the thought to not give it to them, plus it establishes a timeline of his development.One key device that will be part of the PDAs will be a motion detector (very short range, only 6 meters) and high quality camera functions. If Cade had the tech, he'd go for the floating orb PDAs, ala NASA, but that'd just be spendy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Cade's hope is that his group will be the field test group for the tool, as his whole reason for designing it is to try and beat the 'Numbers Game'.</blockquote>

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