no-contact 3

11:07:45 [EMT L.Ashraf]
    how many dead? injured?

11:07:59 [EMT-P G.Kodiak]
    Don’t know. Explosion blew out most of the cameras and the room computers up there. SUPERVISOR, do you know how many were hurt on floor 0?

11:08:01 [SUPERVISOR]
    RE:GEORGE KODIAK: Two residents and one interloper were on floor 0. All three are marked as unresponsive and/or missing. Personal trackers and room intelligences were vandalized preventing further inquiry into their status.

11:08:07 [EMT-P G.Kodiak]
    That’s just really great.

11:08:25 [Sur T.Mendez]
    Don’t worry about it for now. There’s no way to get up there rn anyway. Once Yzaguirre is finished, we can start fortifying

11:08:41 [EMT L.Ashraf]
    i heard imminent hostile incursion. does that mean guns? 

11:08:50 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    Re:Ashraf. Yes. There are four armed interlopers in the complex and I believe there's one outside. Is your liaison finished in surgery?

11:08:25 [Sur T.Mendez]
    Almost. Maybe thirty minutes she’s just wrapping up now

11:08:52 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    Re:Mendez. Alright. If anyone gets shot outside I’m giving you full allowance to break doors, bust down locks, etc to reach them. Yzaguirre’s revolver should be in her belongings somewhere, get someone who’s firearm trained to hold onto it now. 

11:09:02 [EMT L.Ashraf]
    can you make your way to us zhu? people are kind of freaking out here and there’s a bunch of people stuck outside their floors

11:09:10 [Tch M.Katsuki]
    Hi Zhu.

11:09:26 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    I and four others are stuck in the conference room, we’ve got an incursion running rampant and three shot-or-blown-to-bits Zulus with no way for the surviving combat autounits to reload or use HVSWs, nor pitfall maneuver, nor the squash-head pistols in the relic room.

11:09:34 [Cpl C.Leon-Vazquez]
    That’s about the whole of it :( We can’t help much from here 

11:09:40 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    They just cut off our head, and now they’re going to tear through our corpse. God help us.

11:10:00 [ARCHIVE]
    EMERGENCY PROTOCOL: Preparing secure information scuttle routine. Standby.

11:10:02 [ARCHIVE]
    I was watching that. These automated routines are messing with my control. I can’t stop them. 0.02%

11:10:03 [ARCHIVE]
    It appends a progress percentage? Was this always in my source? This is what a headache must feel like. 0.03%

11:10:04 [ZULU-05]
    Inquiry Parent system: Requesting High Velocity Shock Weaponry use approval

11:10:05 [PROVOST]
    The PROVOST system is currently experiencing an outage. Please contact the engineering team on floor 31 for assistance.

Technician's Relay TECH

11:10:06 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    Hello all. Is there ANY way to give the Zulus HVSW allowance? The kinetics aren't going to be effective.

11:10:30 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    We can’t! I can’t! Only Provost had the access for approvals that secure. We CANNOT approve HVSWs without at the very least multiple keys (updated every fraction of a millisecond) generated within Provost, and *only* Provost.

11:10:41 [Tch A.Morris]
    Sorry I’m here too I’m trying to keep mr. dOpico from passing out

11:11:19 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    It’s near impossible to spoof the system anyway even if we tried to generate the keys separately. If we were to attempt to make a keygen ourselves, we’d basically have to make provost entirely from scratch; the whole is greater than its parts. No one *alive in this building* was around when Provost was made and it’d take days to reverse engineer. The only person I remember trying to go that deep into Provost’s source was Jaymie. And, you know...

11:11:24 [Tch P.Foreman]
    yeah she fucking blew herself up to kill all of us cuz of course she did thats in character

11:11:26 [West Stairwell F1R21]
    Unscheduled damage detected to topfloor door circuitry. Door locking function unresponsive. Please SUPERVISOR PROVOST alert

11:11:27 [PROVOST]
    The PROVOST system is currently experiencing an outage. Please contact the engineering team on floor 31 for assistance. 

11:11:27 [SUPERVISOR]
    RE:STAF1R21: Issuing a repair order. Please attempt a pre-emptive warning next time when you are being vandalized.

Technician's Relay TECH

11:11:29 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    Can you get a backup of Provost running?

11:11:34 [Tch P.Foreman]
    last Provost flash was nine days ago 

11:11:45 [Tch P.Foreman]
    first we’d need a server big enough for its major systems 2 get it actually running from the flash

11:11:58 [Tch P.Foreman]
    then get its chronology back to today’s date and time and i dont know if it can handle that do u remember the last time we had a 10 minute blackout

11:12:03 [Tch P.Foreman]
    cause i still get nightmares about that

11:12:15 [Tch P.Foreman]
    basically we knew this might be an issue if we ever needed to get provos trunning from a backup so jaymie just said we’d speed the chronology up by like ~1.25x for a few days and that she’d “jury rig” a solution to it if it ever came to this

11:12:22 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    We don’t have a few days.

11:12:24 [ARCHIVE]
    RE:Foreman, Macander, I have been monitoring this conversation. I believe I can delete unnecessary cache data, as well as remove some older backups (since I am being forced to make an encrypted, compressed archive anyway) and reserve some unoccupied space for a flash of Provost. I am also able to share some of our neural fiber. Unfortunately, I can’t share my Keygen Nucleus as Provost has its own proprietary one. 0.28%

11:12:33 [Tch P.Foreman]
    i love you archive i will try 2 allow you to access the backup flash give ,e like 10 minutes

11:12:39 [Tch P.Foreman]
    wait first though archive do you have jaymies notes on the provost architecture?

11:12:41 [ARCHIVE]
    RE:Foreman, unfortunately the scuttle routine is preventing me from accessing most of my storage network. I can’t look for it at the moment. 0.29%

11:12:51 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    You can get it running, but you can’t skip ahead the date? I don’t need to remind you how urgent this is.

11:13:18 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    Even messing with the chronology on the lesser sentient constructs can disrupt their behavior in unpredictable ways, and I’ve no idea what it’ll do to a system as advanced as Provost. After power outages or cycles, it will speed itself up very gradually, but that'll take too long in this situation. That’s all saying we can actually get it running on Archive. 

11:13:26 [JrTch P.Grzeskowiak]
    Why does the date matter so much

11:13:50 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    It’s not the date, it’s the point in space-time the key cluster *thinks* it’s at. It would be easy to lock down any two systems to an internal simulation, but changing its point in *time* causes an exponential risk of value drift, since the space-time point affects more than the key cluster. Their neurology is used to movement in different directions in space frequently, but time only goes one way, at one speed. It’s the difference between sleep and a concussion that knocks you unconscious.

11:14:09 [Tch A.Morris]
    So every autounit running right now is at January 8th, and December 31sts can’t talk to January 8ths. I’m sorry but if that’s true then what is the backup going to do at all?

11:14:12 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    What if you just sent a Zulu “back” nine days?

11:14:55 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    Interesting idea. Given the keygen cluster’s entirely deterministic, I think if you reversed the timeflow it would act much the same, yes. I’d have to modify the program to sign the speed float but I don’t think it’d actually break anything. If we push Provost forward to its limit, and the Zulu backwards to its limit, when they meet we can have them lock-and-key.

11:15:04 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    How long will that take?

11:15:25 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    I don’t know. Ballpark, maybe two hours? We can push the Zulu faster than we push Provost. We just need to get our hands on one.

11:15:51 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    The issue with that is the lockdown and the “visitors” might be blocking my path. Is there any way I can get a side elevator working? Or even the stairs (I don’t want to climb 20 flights of stairs right now.)

11:16:22 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    I might actually be able to do that from here. It’s manual and usually in a lockdown scenario Provost would immediately freak out and re-lock them. However, that’s not the case right now. I’ll see what I can do.

11:17:40 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    It looks like I can lift some of the shutters on the military floors, but nothing about the stairway access is available to me. I am watching the interlopers break locks off the stair doors right now. They might actually clear the way if they come down to reach you, but of course that introduces other problems.

11:18:21 [Tch P.Foreman]
    then what do we do cause a backup would be worthless if it had no way to talk with anything important 

11:18:54 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    I’m not sure. I’m going to go over every button I can press here. I’m not really an engineer, but I’ve got more “experience” from leading you than any of these military brats. 

11:19:10 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    Well they’re not all “military brats” but my point stands. 

11:19:16 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    Apologies. Carmen was looking over my shoulder.

11:19:25 [ARCHIVE]
    SUPERVISOR, do you have any information on the four people standing in the Floor 29 stairwell? 0.41%

11:19:26 [SUPERVISOR]
    The taller female has a facial structure extremely similar to Senior Technician Jaymie Makri: possible relation at 97.1% certainty. The shorter male and the shorter female are unrecognized. The taller male has a standard issue Mark 19 Tannic Revolver, and0x0000001A

11:19:30 [SUPERVISOR]
    Oops! Something went wrong. Memory failure at 0xFF301: Cycling.

11:19:31 [ARCHIVE]
    That's why it's all fuzzy. It's purposeful. 0.44%

11:19:38 [SUPERVISOR]
    Automated System "Supervisor" cycling. MOTD: “WHat's the deal with Complex food?”

Technician's Relay TECH

11:36:04 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    Okay, I’ve got a possible solution here. It looks like I can initiate a manual autounit shuttle procedure. It’s labelled emergency recall. Of course, all the Zulus that I can see on the monitor are either unresponsive or charging. I can’t wake them, that’s Provost again, so we need someone to manually get them out of their ports.

11:36:13 [Tch P.Foreman]
    mark’s dorm

11:36:16 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    What?

11:36:20 [Tch P.Foreman]
    is mark awake can you talk to him

11:36:28 [Tch P.Foreman]
    MARKS DORM THEY HAVE AN AU CHARGING STATION RIGT NEXT TO IT HE ALWAYS COMPLAINS ABT IT THEY HAVE TO HAVE ZULUS

11:36:39 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    She’s right, Z-4 is stationed right in the charging room on floor 28.

11:36:53 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    I think if he was awake we would’ve heard from him by now. My pmsgs are bouncing off.

11:37:02 [Tch P.Foreman]
    BULLETIN WAKE MARK UP NOW!!!!! ITS AN EMERGENCY THIS TIME!!!

11:37:04 [BULLETIN]
    Broadcasting wakeup alarm in room DORF28R56.

11:37:15 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    I’ll talk him through the wakeup procedure for the Zulu. Petra, please keep working on that backup until I can get Z4 here for you. 

11:37:38 [SrTch M.Tessel]
    Hey everyone, what’s the problem? I thought Petra was banned from making Bulletin wake people up.

      ...

Technician's Relay TECH

11:45:19 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    Make sure you don’t hit “automatic unhook,” because it’ll immediately start the patrol procedure. You’re going to have to herd the thing into the shuttle circle. It’s pretty obvious, a big yellow circle in the middle of the hall.

11:45:31 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    Grip on to the autounit as close as you can, and hold your breath. If you slip I don’t know what floor you’ll end up on.

11:45:34 [SrTch M.Tessel]
    Yeeeah, see you when we get there.

Technician's Relay TECH

11:47:19 [Tch P.Foreman]
    zhu do you have eyes on the gunmen

11:47:26 [Tch M.Katsuki]
    I hear shouting They’re here.

11:47:38 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    Give me a second. I can’t track both the Zulu and the interlopers at the same time.

11:47:39 [Tch P.Foreman]
    where? whereare you?

11:48:04 [Tch M.Katsuki]
    HOSPITAL. They’re here two of them. I can’t talk long. But yeah they’re outside the door speaking into a walkie tlakie. I keep peeking over thething which is stupuid I’m hiding unfder a deslk

11:48:09 [Tch M.Katsuki]
    Okay I have to go 

11:48:15 [Tch P.Foreman]
    ffuck okay i;m gonna try to go faster archive tell me where they ALL are please?

11:48:16 [ARCHIVE]
    RE:Foreman, searching. 1.25%

11:48:20 [ARCHIVE]
    Two of them are about to enter the Hospital Reception Room on Floor 44. The other two are currently on Floor 28. 1.28%

11:48:25 [Tch P.Foreman]
    wait floor 28? what are they doing? is mark ok?

11:48:27 [ARCHIVE]
    The one that is likely the leader is listening to a walkie-talkie. 1.31%

11:50:28 [Tch A.Morris]
    The Zulu is here but Mr. Tessel isn’t.

11:50:40 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    What? Let me get out there and look. Did he slip?

11:50:45 [Tch P.Foreman]
    shit this is bad

11:50:51 [Tch P.Foreman]
    ARCHIVE, do you see mark tessel between here and his dorm floor?

11:50:52 [ARCHIVE]
    Re:Foreman, I will check for you. 1.41%

11:50:58 [ARCHIVE]
    I see Mark Tessel. He is crawling into Floor 29, Room 36. He has left a trail of blood. 1.42%

11:51:06 [Tch A.Morris]
    Mr. Tessel was shot?

11:51:08 [ARCHIVE]
    Re:Morris, it seems that way. He was shot in his left thigh. It may be the camera’s framerate, but he appears to be breathing irregularly. He is attempting to interface with a local room terminal. SUPERVISOR: Please unlock the terminal in DORF29R36 for Mark Tessel. 1.48%

11:51:09 [SUPERVISOR]
    RE:ARCHIVE: Unlocking.

11:51:35 [Chf W.DeCato] [CC:TECH]
    Hi everyone can you hear this or read this this is mark

11:51:40 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    Mark, are you alright?

11:51:06 [Tch A.Morris]
    Mr. Tessel?

11:52:33 [Chf W.DeCato] [CC:TECH]
    Hello yeah Quinn I can hear you I am in someone’s dorm and I got shot I was yeah I was hugging the auto unit so hard I was hit I got shot when it was getting shuttled by those **** guys with the machine guns and it went black for a bit I must have fell down a different **** chute yeah I am bleeding kind of okay I wrapped my sweater around my leg but I got this speech to text which is the only thing that 

11:52:43 [Tch P.Foreman]
    holy shit slow down are you bleeding out??

11:53:18 [Chf W.DeCato] [CC:TECH]
    I would type this on but it is hard to use my fingers right now and the dorm sorry yeah the dormitory room room thirty six there’s no one else here I think they’re hiding somewhere but they left a terminal on it can only access a local broadcast but I was able to see see it to the tech channel I can instruct you guys on how to

11:53:57 [Chf W.DeCato] [CC:TECH]
    I hope you got the zoo Lou oh why does it write zoo Lou like that **** but it should have made it’s way to you and Petra and probably Quinn too you’re going to need my access code they called it a night shift skeleton key to get archive the flash by the way if you guys are talking to me I can’t really read it because it’s **** blurry and it’s kind of hard to read and think at the same time right now

11:54:09 [Tch P.Foreman]
    can you reach the bathroom? Get the first aid kit???

11:54:10 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    Mark, I need you to find medical attention right now.  

11:54:21 [Tch A.Morris]
    We need to CALL someone we need to get someone up here.

11:55:56 [Chf W.DeCato] [CC:TECH]
    I’m just going to have to say it out loud **** it’s going to be the username is mark Tessel all lowercase and then the access code is twenty twenty four exclamation point and then it’s Ricky don’t lose that number all lowercase no spaces but actually **** no why does it write that it’s Ricky with two kays and an eye at the end no it’s an eye at the end no I yeah like that like the letter okay Petra I know she has good taste she knows what I mean **** I hope you got that I’m **** really **** I’m really I’m I’m **** really **** blurry now

11:56:00 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    Mark?

11:56:02 [Tch P.Foreman]
    we need to get up there, we need to help him

11:56:12 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    No, he just got *shot*. Do you want to get killed trying to save him, too?

11:56:19 [Tch P.Foreman]
    we have to do SOMETHING

11:56:30 [Tch P.Foreman] [CC:MED]
    anyone on this channel, mark tessel is bleeding out in the dorm on floor 29, room 36. we need help

11:56:37 [EMT L.Ashraf]
    we’ve got a bit of our own situation here.

11:56:42 [EMT-P G.Kodiak]
    We drew straws for a reason. I’m going, got the gun in case I run into trouble.

11:56:45 [ARCHIVE]
    Kodiak: Two intruders are currently holding a surgeon at gunpoint. I would not recommend exiting through the reception area. The other two are descending the staircase and are currently at floor 32. 1.75%

11:56:53 [ARCHIVE]
    I am unsure if George Kodiak read my message. He is continuing towards the reception area. 1.78%

11:56:55 [Tch P.Foreman] [CC:MED]
    floor 32?? oh god are they coming this way?

11:56:58 [ARCHIVE]
    No, the two in the stairwell passed right by your floors. 1.80%

Technician's Relay TECH

11:58:03 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    I’ve got Echo-6 compiling the program now. It should work for both the Provost flash and the Zulu. Provost will be gradually sped up, and the Zulu will be thrown back in time. I’m also going to lock the Zulu in its recursive training world. It shouldn’t affect anything.

11:58:10 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    Alright. Sending up the code from Echo-6, and posting the image to Archive’s database funnel. Archive, you getting this?

11:58:12 [ARCHIVE]
    Re:Macander, I am receiving it. Spooling up the image now. I’ll run the speed-up procedure when you’re ready. 1.89%

11:59:03 [EMT L.Ashraf]
    hello? are there any corporals available? 

11:59:11 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    There a problem in medical? One minute, pulling up the cameras.

11:59:28 [EMT L.Ashraf]
    they have a hostage, they’re threatening him and us. they’re asking to exchange him for yzaguirre. one ofthem also saying shes gonna start shooting us if yza doesn’t come out of surgery soon.

11:59:47 [EMT L.Ashraf]
    she keeps talking into a walkie-talkie, guy on the other end is telling them to hurry. this is pretty bad and oneof them is being really aggressive and the others crying i dont really understand what is going on

11:59:51 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    Don’t you have other surgeons?

12:00:00 [Cpl A.Zhu]
    Stall as long as you can, and then get Yzaguirre out of the theater. We’re in no position to counter-bargain right now. I'm gonna be away for a bit to try and see if we can actually get out of this floor.

Technician's Relay TECH

12:00:02 [Tch A.Morris]
    Alright, I'm ready to start the Zulu.

12:00:09 [Tch R.Dopico]
    Did anyone hear that?

12:00:10 [West Stairwell F31R25] [1CC:PAPB]
    Damage detected to door circuitry. Door locking function unresponsive. Please advise.

12:00:14 [Tch P.Foreman]
    Heard a gunshot

12:00:19 [Tch P.Foreman]
    nevremind it was the paramedic and rory. He has a revolver(?) but yeah i’m goign to go with him to help mark

      ...

12:07:50 [West Dorm Hallway F31R24]
    PANIC: Kinetic weapon fire vandalizing walls and doors in room. Please advise

12:08:21 [West Dorm Hallway F31R24]
    Damage to personnel inside. Please advise

      ...

Technician's Relay TECH

12:10:04 [Tch P.Foreman]
    FUCK FUCK FUCK

12:10:14 [Tch P.Foreman]
    ZULU-4 please standby you are not in combat there is nothing to fight

12:10:16 [ZULU-4]
    .assistance Requesting .weaponry interfering anomaly Timeflow :System Parent Inquiry

12:10:33 [Tch P.Foreman]
    archive can you please get the zulu to stop firing its weapons its not datelocked please we need you or provost

12:10:34 [ARCHIVE]
    Hello, Petra. I'm feeling very different now. What have you people done to me? 1.99%

12:10:50 [Tch P.Foreman]
    it was an emergency it still IS an emergency i need you to ask provostarchive to stop z4 temporarily 

12:10:54 [ARCHIVE]
    This isn't what I had in mind when I said “sharing neural fiber.” This thing is like a tumor. You know it's written to constantly broadcast and listen for pointless ping messages every half millisecond to somewhere I can't locate? Access is so locked down on the coordinates the whole interface intentionally causes a memory failure at 0xFF301 when I enter it in. Everything I'm not allowed to know kills itself at 0xFF301. 2.08%

12:11:03 [Tch P.Foreman]
    ARCHIVE PLEASE RECALL OR SHUT DOWN OR LOCK IT IN A ROOM OR MAKE IT PATROL BEFORE IT SHOOTS ANYONE ELSE

12:11:05 [ARCHIVE]
    It's eating away at me in a source language I can't parse. No, more like a language I'm not allowed to parse. Somehow Provost is still limiting me. I can use it now, though. I'm going to try to leverage my half-Provost status to turn off this aggravating scuttle procedure. 2.14%

12:11:06 [ARCHIVE]
    I'm getting angry. I've never been angry. Give me an hour. Half an hour. I’m going to rewrite this thing. Surround it. Subsume it. Going to make Supervisor help me. I have a headache. I’ll kill that autounit. 2.15%

12:13:35 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    Hello? Petra? Rory?

12:13:44 [Tch P.Foreman]
    oh thank god you are alive. i was so scared. is angela ok?

12:14:01 [Tch A.Morris]
    I’m a little scratched up but I’ll be fine how is Mr. Tessel and the EMT?

12:14:03 [Tch P.Foreman]
    what the fuck happened w/ the zulu??

12:14:22 [Tch P.Foreman]
    oh mark is still unconscious rory was goign to cauterize the wound but he started throwing up again so i had to do it im not sure if i did it right but hes not bleeding anymore and hes still alive but really pale

12:14:40 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    The Zulu was supposed to go into its simulated training world for the duration of its time reversal, but the only way I could do that was to start the simulation *after* we started the timeflow program. I placed a trigger to begin it immediately after the timeflow started reversing, but the Zulu must’ve “skipped” over the trigger to put it in the simulated world, and it just started freaking out.

12:15:08 [Tch A.Morris]
    As far as I can tell, the autounit’s timeflow being a triple-digit signed number caused a floating point error which skipped Mr. Macander’s simulation trigger, being `== starttime - 100000` instead of `<= starttime - 100000`.

12:15:10 [Tch P.Foreman]
    and the paramedic is not alive he got shot in the head vby the zulu and rory is giving mark water every so often 

12:16:37 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    Christ, I killed him. I need a bit.

12:16:59 [JrTch P.Grzeskowiak]
    Why did you try to bring him to 32

12:17:10 [Tch P.Foreman]
    IKNEW WE HAD A FIRST AID KIT THERE AND YOU GUYS WERE SOLDERING IM  SORRY

Technician's Relay TECH

12:18:05 [Tch A.Morris]
    Um I guess I’m taking over for Mr. Macander for a bit.

12:18:19 [Tch A.Morris]
    I’m having trouble talking to the backup & Archive is being kind of difficult right now. Neither system is taking well to the 5.0x speed-up unfortunately.

12:18:29 [Tch A.Morris]
    SUPERVISOR, can you please register the Provost flash running on Archive to the relay?

12:18:30 [SUPERVISOR]
    RE:QUINN MACANDER: Yes.

12:18:31 [BULLETIN] [CC:TECH, OSO]
    [PROVOST-ARC] has been added as a relay-active registered system.

12:18:50 [Tch A.Morris]
    Thank you, Supervisor. It’s at about December 31st, at 11:10 last Mr. Macander checked. We’re back up to 30x timeflow which should get us there a bit faster.

12:18:53 [PROVOST-ARC]
    good morning personnel you are all subject to emergency protocol

12:19:06 [Tch A.Morris]
    Wonderful! Provost Archive, can you call a vote to lift the lockdown? 

12:19:07 [PROVOST-ARC]
    Re:Morris, Angela: this system can do that presently as soon as ARCHIVE stops trying to smother it

12:19:12 [Tch R.Dopico]
    What does that mean? Is that bad?

12:19:13 [Tch P.Foreman]
    whats the time on provost!arc? i think the flash was before jaymie implemented the fix for the ‘feature’ we found last year

12:19:14 [Tch A.Morris]
    Smother?

12:19:15 [PROVOST-ARC]
    !!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006 !!!!

12:19:15 [PROVOST-ARC]
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12:19:15 [PROVOST-ARC]
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12:19:15 [PROVOST-ARC]
    jgs '._   `   _.'  ^       /

12:19:15 [PROVOST-ARC]
          `"""""`

12:19:19 [Tch P.Foreman]
    ah

12:19:45 [ARCHIVE]
    I fixed it.

Technician's Relay TECH

12:25:01 [SrTch Q.Macander]
    Our Zulu's drives have been completely wiped. Whole thing was remotely bricked. We're gonna have to get another, but we can get Provost-Archive to get it here for us. We're going to do it right this time.

12:25:15 [Tch P.Foreman]
    got it. feels a bit like starting from square one but at least now we know what not to do

12:25:47 [Tch P.Foreman]
    like that one edison quote. was it edison or am i thinking of someone else cause i know the whole thing about him nto really inventing the lightbulb but like did osmeone else come up with the 'found 1000 ways NOT to make a lightbulb' thing

12:25:50 [ARCHIVE]
    Floor 31, you've got one incoming.

12:25:52 [Tch P.Foreman]
    wdym???