USH'S MATRIX GAME 2006 THIRD ASSIGNMENT- 'The Fortress'

"Have you been living long with Lo Qi?"

Ush, monks we saw in the monastery didn`t act like this, they were behaving calmly, more like expected from Monks?

Klez is sincerely interested.

"How long does it take for the device to isolate the signal and take you out?"

"Programmers of what?" Sirin continues.

Well, you didn't actually talk to any of the other Monks so you couldn't say. You certainly didn't expect any of them to be like this!

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"Of whatever we like, dude! We create new programmes as needed. And, well, we were created to help Lo Qi, so we were kinda always there with him. Even in the old days, before we came to the Matrix."

"Takes about 30 seconds, dude. It's a real improvement."

"It/is/a/toy. kill/ing/would/be/bet/ter"

"Hey, dude, you know what Lo Qi thinks about that kind of thing."

The Hunter does not reply.

"I prefer the method you used on my friends than the one you wished to use," Sirin says, shooting a bit of a glare at the Hunter. "You create Programs? Like yourselves or...more simplified?"

"Incredibly so," Klez says, with a bit of a grin. "Perhaps you should code one for Zion operatives..."

Heph asks the Hunter how he knew his name.

"I didn't give it, after all."

"You are quite cool, you know dudes?" -Melkor cheers, still trying to understand them more, though he is almost sure that they are not dangerous, though he feels suddenly a bit distracted by Sirin`s presence.

"Tell me, do you like humans?"

He didn't answer at first.

"you/fought/lo/qi. he/knew/your/name"

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"I mean, the real trick was in getting an isolator principle to work on signals that don't really need isolating..."

"No, dude! The TRICK is in simulating the effect of the literal hardline!"

"Oh dude no..."

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This goes on for a little while before one of them explains. During this time, Dallas has just one question.

"Ariadne, can you stop that working?"

"I think so," she says. "Signals are naturally stable. Now I know what it is I should be able to boost it and reject the result. The Machines would so the same to us if they could monitor billions of humans simultaneously. I only have a few to worry about."

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"See," says Dudemonk1, "there are a few differences. Literally, you only need to isolate signals because they are one amongst billions of others. Your pirated signals are still unique, But we still need to 'fish them out', like, totally that's the way to think about it."

"So that's why we need the direct applicator. Now, the other trick is... when you crash someone's signal when you pull them out the Matrix the first time, they live because they are ACTUALLY hardwired in. It's designed to cope. Your pirate wireless signals... kinda are not. Your minds can't survive that kinda cut-off."

"So we've actually simulated the entire set-up when you are in the pods and all that... but in software. The buffering keeps your minds alive. It's a shock to the system, though. The mind totally disconnects from reality for a while first. Still, dudes, you all lived through that first time you left."

"Do you reside at the Monastery?" he asks the Hunter.

"I/have/no/home"

"Is the system hunting you?"- Melkor sees that monkdudes ignore him and joins the Hunter conversation.

"Anyone have any ideas what we should do now?" San asks.

"Intriguing," Klez comments, listening to the explanation of the device. He knows that Finn and Ariadne are probably listening, soaking up the information and knowing how to put it to good use or how to counter it.

"I'll give you one guess as to Dallas' plan," says Marduk.

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"We go back, of course!" says Dallas. "As soon as! Get working on the hack, Ariadne."

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They aren't ignoring you persay, Melkor, just caught up in explaining their stuff.

The Hunter does not answer.

"It involves hunting the Hunter, I'm sure," Melis says, standing besides San.

"Captain, how are we going to get back out to the mountains?" Mors asks. "We'd need to steal more Helicopters, and no doubt the System has all relevant Helicopter bases locked down tight..."

"You got that right," says Ariadne. "They're all on alert."

"No no no," says Dallas. "What WE need... is one of those Osprey things..."

"Dallas, those are on military bases!

"Exactly! It's the last thing they'll be expecting!"

"I'm just going to say that trying to get into a military base to get one of those is completely and utterly insane and leave it at that..."

Mors gapes.

"Dallas, that's insane! Even for you! We're at half our manpower, and it was difficult enough as it was to get a group of civilian helicopters..."