Secure:Tennessee Null Point

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Blues pays a visit to northeast Tennessee, materializing at coordinates 36'28'20.58 N by 81'55'19.43 W. It's by a road called the Iron Mountain Trail, which connects to State Route 421 to the north if you're willing to undertake a long, dangerous drive. This is about as far into the middle of nowhere as you can feasibly get on the east side of the lower 48.

The main population out here is trees. Trees, rocks, and dirt. A lot of snow; it's been a harsh winter in this part of the world. The road is not plowed, but there are signs of traffic. Big trucks, consistent with UPS or FedEx, have had to pass along the trail here.

Blues encounters a mailbox in front of a ditch-like driveway. It winds back away from the road into the woods, and ends at a set of blast doors into a World War III-era blast shelter. Energy readings are found behind it, but other sensors fall short. You'd be hard pressed to blast the doors open, but there appears to be a keypad interface on one side of the blast doors and a marble-sized camera overlooking the driveway.

Nothing happens to Blues as he wanders around the area. There's nothing else to see aside from this bomb shelter all the way out here. It's kind of lonely.

TNP Observations

Blues sets up a very basic camera rig about the size of a kiwi fruit in a tree. The camera with its small mic beams a live feed back to the Hunter satellite network.

This is probably the most boring channel on TV. The sun rises. The sun sets. It rains. It doesn't rain. Animals walk by. There are occasionally birds. Sometimes a plane flies by in the far distance. Interns fall asleep doing this job. Sonata ultimately gets stuck with it.

On Tuesday, a UPS truck rolls up to the mailbox, drops off a series of boxes, and leaves. About an hour later, the blast doors open. A crude Joe-like robot clumps out from the darkness, goes up the path, collects the boxes, drags them back inside, and disappears from view as the blast doors close.

Nothing else happens the rest of the week unless Blues makes it happen.

The Awakening of Kappa

Riot, Rock, Cinnamon, Alloy, Nana and Zach Glen investigated the TNP on foot. They found a massive server farm directly linked to the continental network backbone. The chamber was also home to a drone meant to house at least the Kappa segment of Duo.EXE. It was revealed that there are, in addition to Kappa and the Alpha construct controlled by the Nuevo One, five other segment farms across the world.

Gospel has reason to believe, based on data displayed from the reboot of the Kappa Farm, that there is something relating to this matter located in Rio. In the margin of this notebook, Zach has penned in the word 'Alpha?' next to this factoid.

Feild Ops and Hacker Investigation team Report

A team consisting of Riot, Rock, Cinnamon, Alloy, Nana and Zach Glen investigated the Tennesee Null Point.

Landing a transport not far from the entrance to the old WWIII bomb shelter, the team walked up to the entrance to find it iced over and a dark console.

Nana inspected the console and entered the code 8128 which seemed to open the doors, at the same time Cinnamon waved to the camera.

Entering the tunnel the group found it to be very old, and strew with power cable almost organicly. They approached the end of the tunnel at a blind turn and another camera. Beyond the turn was an elevator.

The elevator lead downwards, the air rapidly becaome colder and dryer as it went, like a steril cold lab. When the elevator reached bottom, the team found a plastic door like those in a supermarket to keep cold air in. Pushing past it the team foudn a rough hewn tunnel, like those dug by mechanaloids before reploids come in and finish the work.

Further in was a chamber with a smooth floor, row apon row of server racks connected to the center of the room with a bowl shaped depression with a chair in it. In this chair was a humanoid mechanical body, created from seemingly random parts with no sense to the methods used. With cinnamon's help damage toth e body was repaired and the sunken black visual sensors lit with tiny red vision points. Zachw as also able to confirm that the body had a whoppin' large amount of processor capacity as well as greatly enhanced wirless connection abilities. Both Server Farm and Robot were tied into a large internet backbone directly, pressumably to take advantadge of the massive bandwidth provided.

Meanwhile Nana and Alloy jacked into the server farm and found a spinning piece of stuck, fragmented code amdist data collection, sorting and compression routines running automatically. Determining that the code was merely stuck the pair rebooted the system, allowing the code to reactive and begin a slow self repair routine.

Holowindows appeared around the chair, one a startup sequence, another displayed the self repair process, the third was network activity showing glowing white dots on a globe, one was near the TNP, another was near Rio. The window crashed shortly afterwards.

The robot body began to twitch it's right eye, and another window appeared

CALLING ALPHA SEGMENT ALPHA SEGMENT...NOT RESPONDING

CALLING BETA SEGMENT BETA SEGMENT...RESPONSE! STATUS: AGGREGATOR SYSTEM ACTIVE KEEPALIVE...NOT RESPONDING

IOTA SEGMENT...RESPONSE! STATUS: AGGREGATOR SYSTEM ACTIVE KEEPALIVE...NOT RESPONDING

KAPPA SEGMENT...RESPONSE! STATUS: AGGREGATOR SYSTEM ACTIVE KEEPALIVE...RESPONSE!

RUN LEGION.DAT -REPAIR CALLING ALPHA SEGMENT ALPHA SEGMENT...NOT RESPONDING REPEAT IN 60s

This divides off into another screen. On the first screen, the process continues.

XI SEGMENT...RESPONSE! STATUS: AGGREGATOR SYSTEM ACTIVE KEEPALIVE...NOT RESPONDING

PI SEGMENT...RESPONSE! STATUS: AGGREGATOR SYSTEM ACTIVE KEEPALIVE...NOT RESPONDING

TAU SEGMENT...RESPONSE! STATUS: AGGREGATOR SYSTEM ACTIVE KEEPALIVE...NOT RESPONDING

REPEAT IN 60s

Rapid speculation ensued, believing N1 may have six more Deadlaus units, made from fragments of Duo.

The rebooted and self repairing code fragment began establishing outside connections. - There nature has not yet been investigated.

Aroudn this time the robot body began moving, and seemed to specificly look at Cinnamon first, and it spoke in a soft male voice 'I am.' When prompted if it was Duo.EXE it responded 'I am,' inconclusivly repeating itself. all it would say afterwards was "Kappa segment operational," and "Waiting for keepalive responses." or "No route to host," "Alpha segment will not respond."

Although, there was mention of 'Commander Beef'

The drone body and server farm were left with a gaurd which rotates from the Gospel trusted. The rest left with the a disire to find and free Duo.EXE's trapped segment.

And to punch Sumiyama in the face.

A lot.

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