london ♔ stand across the wire

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Technologic [fool remix] - Daftpunk

WHO ||  Lila, Astrid, Faye, Topher, Zero, One, GLaDOS
WHAT || Lila and Zero go to confront the technomage One, with a little help from their friends...
WHERE || Downtown London, CalTech building
WHEN || Late March, 2015 [backdated]
HOW || Actionspam

It's been a couple of months since the hacker who goes by the moniker "One" assisted in the attack on the Knights' castle, with the inside assistance of the Artificial Intelligence-turned-human GLaDOS.  Zero has good reason to believe, however, that One hasn't left - that he's waiting for him to come face him, and that the stage he's set for the showdown is the CalTech building in the city, whose employees are off for the week.  Realizing it's likely a trap, Zero's stacked his chips on setting a counter-trap - uploading a virus designed by himself and Topher Brink into the now-cyborg Faye Chamberlain's brain, assuming that he is going to try to hack into her and turn her against them.  

They arrive at the building as the sun is going down, staring up at the building that has a light show of digital streams coursing down the front of it, drawing a snort from Zero.  

"Theatrical jackass."

Comments

[behindcloseddoors]

[ WHAT DOES HE EVEN DO I DONT KNOW HE BROKE THE MATRIX

basically the simulation fucking melts around them at this point when he pulls a fist-full of wires out of the ground somewhere. oh hey look. they're on a warehouse floor. there are no killer robots here. ]

[pathology]

What the fuck. I guess this is an improvement?

[andblockbuster]

Uh... [looking at his fistful of wires like HOLY CRAP I DID NOT REALIZE THAT WOULD WORK SO WELL.] Yeah... I'd say so.

I'm feeling a little Keanu right now. How about you?

[pathology]

Um, yeah. Totally. But at least it's not our entire lives ... that we know of.

[andblockbuster]

..Yeah, given my last job, I'm not really ready for that kind of existential crisis. [he adjusts Faye on his shoulders and sort of hobbles along because he's a weak ass bitch.] Now let's go find Zero.

[pathology]

Which way do you think Lila went, considering our entire perception of reality was a lie?

[andblockbuster]

That's a good question.

[GONNA PICK A DIRECTION AND HEAD THAT WAY... (navigate 14...)]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ how about we make that a search check instead yo ]

[andblockbuster]

[(SEARCH 21) aka Topher tries to wander somewhere, realizes he doesn't know where he's going and starts searching for an exit.]

[behindcloseddoors]

[ YAY THEY FOUND HER ... unconscious... ]