Server

Myriad Reality

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…
*Simply observes this development to see if the conditions evolve*

@GalaxyRaider

*The negotiation completes and generates the world, but the terminal builds out a much denser environment than it originally predicted in the handshake and transmits complex but apparently meaningless data structures to your device*

Myriad Reality

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I’ll be darned if I connect it to anything important though, just in case.
*Summons a small black box and sets it at my feet, then connects the terminal to a new local network*

@GalaxyRaider

*The two establish a successful connection and begin negotiating a shared cyber world*
Especially not connected to the larger net.

Myriad Reality

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I can just do that, I guess. But that’s so weird.

@GalaxyRaider

Part of it's safety. You want to keep these things as far from networks whenever you can.

Myriad Reality

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Immediate stumper. What’s this?

@GalaxyRaider

These old things don't maintain their own networks. You have to hook one up yourself. But I was sort of hoping you could get around that.

Myriad Reality

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Looks like this is it.
*Probes it with an initial action to see what it displays*

@GalaxyRaider

*It returns a protocol error, requesting an external digital zone to render*

Myriad Reality

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*Steps away from the hole in the wall and up to the computer, and takes a moment to utilize my senses for other machines like you suggested*

@GalaxyRaider

*The lone terminal appears to be connected to the reactor itself and exerts a pressure unlike any of the other devices so far*

Myriad Reality

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Oh. Well, I’ll have a peak real quick.

@GalaxyRaider

Go for it. Let me know if you sense any other machines while you're at it.

Myriad Reality

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“Go in”?

@GalaxyRaider

Into the lone server. The rest of this place's network is completely dead.

Myriad Reality

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Right, right… Anything you need me to do?

@GalaxyRaider

What can you get out of this thing before I go in?

Myriad Reality

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Yeah, this specific machine.

@GalaxyRaider

I'm not confident in, well, anything here. I don't like the state we found it in, and the data could've just as easily been in any one of the destroyed machines we passed on our way here. We didn't even enter this part of the plant last time.