USH'S MATRIX GAME FOURTH ASSIGNMENT (COMBAT PATH)- 'The Heist'

"Holy sh!t, She did it!! wow!"

Ok I'm not going first! Someone else can be the guinne pig!

"Finally!" Ares says happily.

"Come on, Mors, take the phone..."

Mors, a bit skeptic, takes the phone and holds it up to his ear...

The signal connects, and Mors turns green as he starts to fade into the phone.

And then, there is again that horiffic high-pitched whining noise, as the signal distorts and rejects...

... but then there is another noise on top of that, a noise like a modem connecting, and Mors' image starts to flit in and out and back and forth...

... and then, Mors, you awake inside the Shehazarad

"Neat," says Dallas. "Alright, let's get outta here..."

Hey, it worked!

Well now, what did you expect?

Dallas calls the Shez and tells Ariadne to send all the coding info over to Finn on the Percy.

Yay, we can finally get out of the Matrix...

You indeedy can!

Anyone want to stay any longer for any reason?

Well, I don't, and I know Barb doesn't either...

I guess not! In which case, you can all return to your ships!

Let's go home!!
Wow, dial-up hacking! Fun!

Um...hmmm...do I have any reason to stay, other than laugh at the Agent for getting hit head knocked off?

NO!

Ares grabs the phone and gets the hell out of the Matrix.

Waits for Ares to Hack out, then grabs the phone

Ok, folks! Everyone is back in the good old real world, with its devastated landscape, crap food, and vicious robots trying to kill you, and you guys with no special powers... ain't life great!

Whilst some of your real life bodies are looking REALLY bad, you will all be glad to know that your damage tracks have been cleared.

"Everyone ok?" asks Dallas.

Marduk is busy making an analysis of the real world situation, working out how much time you have before the sentinel sweep comes this way.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Ok, folks! Everyone is back in the good old real world, with its devastated landscape, crap food, and vicious robots trying to kill you, and you guys with no special powers... ain't life great!

I'll have to consider things... 😛

"Yes, Captain, quite alright." Ares stretches out on a couch in the crew area.

"Sleep..."

"Get your ass up, Ares..."

Mors salutes Captain Dallas. "I'm quite alright, Captain Dallas. I'm glad you are too. We owe you our lives."

Mors remembered that they were still missing members of the crew as he looked over the bodies of Heph, Castor, and Fire, still plugged into the Matrix. "What is their situation?"

"ahh It's soo nice not to have a big gaping hole right about here"
*Motions to chest*

"Ok, well, situation with the others is... ummm... welll... and so on, you get the picture..."

You don't. But what you do get- for those of you on the Shez- is something very unsuaul. The monitors are fixed on the position of the missing players. But the screen- the screen is freaky. It is almost entirely green, with only the tinest shades of black turning up once evrery so often; but the green is pulsating and shifting and sliding.

The screen is choked solid with code, a hundred times more code than is noirmally seen in the Matrix. You can't really make sense of it.

Mors raises an eyebrow, as he does customarily.

"Captain, is there something wrong with the Matrix code? Why the hell is it so...green?" Mors tries to read what he can of the code, but finds it confusingly cluttered and baffling. "Ariadne, can you make any sense of it?"