Gaming w/Jemal: Mutant Apocalypse Issue 3: Fallout

[Jemal]

Cass pulls out her flashlight while Frost lays the pale and unconscious - but still breathing - Gryphon down and the others being their investigations.
Enoch opens his mind to the two he can sense nearby, but all he can tell is that they're about 50 feet away.
Felix slinks up to the door and listens. He can hear and the sounds of nearby furnace and water heater, water flowing through pipes, and a radio playing in the distance. He does not hear anybody walking around or talking. From the echoes, the radio sounds to be around a few twists.

Grid submerges into the virtual reality and pokes at the living firewall. He is caught off guard when it reaches for him, and he barely pulls back in time. A face pushes through the virtual flames for a second, a young girl's face -Genie?- appears screaming for help before he is kicked back out. He recognizes the signal now, though - it seems to be his own code?

OOC: Rolled a perception check for Enoch. Perception (1d20+6=12)

 

[jkason]

Grid stumbled backwards as he found himself ousted from the system, flailing a bit against the virtual flames no one else could see. He flushed a bit when he realized what he must look like.

"So, good news: we have a potential ally on the other side of the firewall. Bad news: I'm not sure she's there intentionally. Embarrassing news: it looks like at least some of this system is using my own code."

[sblock=ooc]Does being kicked out constitute alerting the system? And / or is Grid now locked out, or is he able to try again?[/sblock]

 

[Shayuri]

Cassandra frowns a little, not sure of the significance of this.

"Does that mean you know how to get through it? If you made it, does that mean you have a back door? And...how did they use your code? Are you selling computer security products on the side?"

 

[Jemal]

OOC: Grid alerted whoever was tending the wall, but the boot was automated, so he's fairly certain that they don't know where or who he is. He is not locked out, but now that they know he's coming, they'll be on guard, so if he fails next time, there will be.. consequences (READ: Virtual fight) He may be able to find a back door if the system's really one of his own, and if whoever's running it hasn't fully dissected it, they may not be watching.

 

[jkason]

"I don't know how they have my code," Grid says. "I sure wasn't giving it out to everyone at the time. But if they stole it, maybe they don't know all the ins and outs. I'll give it another go..."

This entire scenario unsettled him: Was Genie trapped, or colluding with these haters? And how did someone get HIS code? Nobody hacked The Grid ... except maybe they had. He felt a twinge in his stomach from where the bullet hit, nearly announced his presence with a virtual scream at the memory, but tried to pull himself together.

[sblock=ooc]Invisible castle does not like Grid. Or me. Possibly both. So, initial try :

Technology ('back door' search) (1d20+20=25)

Which I assume is a failure, so I tried a Hero Point, which didn't fare much better

Hero Point Re-roll (1d20+20=29)

Since Hero re-rolls count as 10 at a minumum, the re-try is a 30 instead of a 29, yes? Not sure if that's good enough, but here's hoping.[/sblock]

 

[Jemal]

OOC: actualy rerolls are +10 if you roll under 11, so that 9 is actually a great roll, becoming a 39. will take grid some time to work, so I'll give others some time to post before

 

[Walking Dad]

OOC: Not much to do for Frost. He lacks the stealth and senses to be of much use right now.

 

[Jemal]

OOC: He could always rush out and try to beat the guards senseless before they get a message off.. Hey, they can't ALL be powerful mutants in here, can they?

 

[Voidrazor]

Enoch stares, furrowing his brow, apparently at a wall, toward the distant guards(?). He whispers, "So, um, no I don't think they're moving toward us. But I can't really tell diddly about them, or try to eat their brains from this distance."

 

[Jemal]

Everybody stands around in the darkness, illuminated only by Cassandra's flashlight, waiting for Grid to finish his task, Enoch's grumpy declaration breaking the eerie silence and causing the others to jump.

Meanwhile, Grid spends some time poking and prodding at the virtual wall. It's SO familiar, it's like one of his, only.. dare he say, more advanced?
After a few moments, he manages to find his back door, and gain access. He searches around, and finds a code that seems different, following it he finds what must be Genie, a little-girl avatar encaged by electricity and fire. She looks up at him, and her eyes go wide with fear as she scampers to the back of her cage away from him.
Before he can question her actions though, Grid feels the backdoor slam shut behind him, cutting his mind off from his body, trapping him in this virtual realm, and he hears an eerie laugh. A bolt of lightning strikes in front of him, forming into a man seemingly made of electricity.
"Pretender. You thought you could enter MY domain? You are a FLY, and on the Web, I am the SPYDER."


<Real World>
After what seems like an eternity, but is only about 5 minutes, Grid's body jerks and he gasps. Enoch can feel his mind slipping onto another plane, his consciousness no longer concentrated in his body. Everybody sees his eyes open wide, filled with sparks of electricity, and then go completely white as his body slumps, seemingly unconscious save for his eyes being wide open.

OOC: Well, nobody else seems to be keen on doing anything yet, so... Opposed Tech (1d20+25=40) meep... so close.. I'll refund the Hero Point you used, and you're now stuck in Virtual World.