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 Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 3:03 pm
Sailor Koeia, Deep Space Senshi of MiraclesAction: Disrupting the signal with a device Koeia not too familiar with the concept or purpose of these humans banks still, it was hard enough for her to understand the concept of personal wealth as her people had no such thing they all lived communally and shared their labor freely for the good of all however she did understand the machinations of Chaos and she understood that whatever this bank was doing it needed to be ended for the safety of the humans here.
Her people were pretty technologically advanced although their technology functioned on the magical energies of their world unlike the human technology, but she was able to adapt fairly well. She took one of the devices that was being handed out and got to work shutting down this banks surveillance system. The fact it could be shut down like this made the ancient senshi wonder if the humans had any sort of secondary redundant system in place or this all they had set up. Quote: Koeia is open for interaction
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 3:12 pm
Belmont, Squire of Jupiter
Staying with the Laptops
There were a lot of people here that Belmont did not know, and very few that he did–but the crowd seemed to keep separating them. He pursed his lips and tilted his head at the laptop he was working with.
He was going to DCU to study engineering, so this didn’t seem too complicated. With her business savvy on top of things, he was pretty sure that they could figure out whatever they needed to in order to make this work.
“We’ve got this,” he said easily, confidently, and flashed her a quick smile. “We’re better off here, did you see those baseball bats they were handing out? Someone’s going to go wild. At least up here we’ve got an easy escape route if something goes wrong. And I like computers, anyway.”
Even if he wasn’t totally sure what he was supposed to be doing right now, he was combing over everything that he could. The important thing was to make sure that they were ready and prepared, and he knew there were others who were going to be relying on them to do this job right.
“I don’t think we can make any more of a mess of things than the Negaverse already has. I’ve never done anything like this before.”
He was taking it seriously, though–and it seemed like a lot of people here were, too. He didn’t want to let any of them down, so he was just going to have to do his best.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 3:43 pm
Meninx, Squire of Mars
Checking Device
Meninx knew next to know one. He felt very starkly alone despite the number of Senshi and Knights surrounding him. He wasn’t very social, he knew that. When he’d heard the call to action, he’d shown up out of–
What, obligation?
He’d felt lost for so long and was just trying to find something to do to keep him grounded. He should have made more of an effort to locate people he could work with, because he felt just as much out of his element now as he ever had.
Also, because he’d somehow wound up at a bank…robbery? Destruction? He knew the Negaverse was involved, but the legal complications–the lawyer in the back of his mind was raging at him. Was this moral? Was this ethical?
He’d followed this group for a reason–there was evidence that the Negaverse was involved and needed to be stopped. He could help manage the outside aspects of this without directly breaking in or messing anything up. Probably. He hoped.
He still felt uneasy, but there were so many people here that seemed to believe in what they were doing. If he was just monitoring technology, that wasn’t really anything bad was it?
The Chronos Squire next to him was voicing enthusiasm, supporting others, and he couldn’t help but wonder if she felt as lost as he did and was overcompensating for it by being so social.
…Or, there were just some people who could be so friendly. Naturally.
“What did you think you were supposed to be doing?” he asked, before he could talk himself out of it. All he had to do was make sure that his device was working–right? The hard part had already been done, someone had already made the technology.
He’d listened during the instructions, he was doing his best.
He just wanted to make sure he was doing the right thing. He wasn’t going to make friends by screwing up. Or by not talking to anyone.
…And she seemed chatty enough that it was worth a shot.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 5:22 pm
Hydor, Chaldene, Cepheus, Targovishte, Antisana, Mirosnjha, Eleonora, Amsvartnir, Vaylin, and Belmont chose to stay with the laptops. What was currently pulled up on the laptops were some of the audio recordings that had been recorded from the bank. This one started with someone clearly saying ”Captain,” but the rest started to slip into muffled tones. Fiddling with the audio was what it took to get the words to a mostly discernible level. There were a few words that were still too quiet to hear, but then one voice said, ”It’s impressive that we have the technology to do something like this.” It was still hard to make out details in the tones of the voices, but it seemed to be another person replying, ”Yes, but it took a lot of energy for something we’ll hopefully never have to use. Could have just put that effort into the bank itself, instead.”The recording continued, but trying to clarify the audio was a slow process. A Chaos aura flared to life in the alleyway behind them. There were a handful of Mauvians around, enough that their own auras should have been hidden, but it was still something of a threat. Did they go down to the alley to find the aura? Or did they stick with their task?--- Hercynia, Perdita, Terebellum, Sigiriya, Connie, Alcor, Koeia and Meninx chose to go down towards the bank with the devices. Using the devices themselves was not difficult. All it took was flipping a switch on the side and keeping them close enough to the electronics for their disrupting signal to reach. If anyone tested the side door with the electronic lock, they would find that it opened. The small red lights by the visible security cameras began to flicker uncontrollably. However, they found that they were not alone. Two teenage girls in hip-hop looking clothes were standing by one of the walls, taking advantage of the dramatic floodlights to film a dance. TikTok, probably. It would have been very creative and nice if not for the fact that the wall was going to be destroyed in a few minutes. The girls shook their heads at their phone screen and then looked over. Did they try to get them away as quickly as possible? or offer to help them film?
Quote: This prompt is a team decision! The group must choose one path. Feel free to discuss OOCly or ICly, or put in an individual choice in the thread as a 'vote' for the final decision.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 8:07 pm
Sailor Osiris // Senshi of Justice
Choice: Find the aura
Osiris had been trying to get out of that law lecture as quickly as possible. But the teacher just kept talking and talking, and it felt like it was never going to end. Finally, after what felt like hours, Osiris was able to slip out of the lecture hall and breathe a sigh of relief. Once he got out of there, he rushed to the meetup. He had been looking forward to this mission for days. When he arrived, he was happy to see that the rest of the team had already arrived and was ready to get started. Osiris realized he had to make a quick decision and chose to stay with the laptops. He looked at everyone who had decided to stay with him, and tried to take them all in or their looks anyways. Since he knew one thing that was significant was getting to know your team. Even just being able to recognize them in a moment of need.
It would be nice if he had more time, but he quickly felt an aura surrounding him as soon as he chose to stay. "Well, it looks like we might not be alone," he said out loud as he looked around the area for where the aura was coming from. He could tell that whatever was the aura was significant and he could sense that it was close by. He could feel the tension in the air and knew he had to make a decision quickly. He knew he had to make a decision between staying with the computers and risking leaving them open. Or take care of whatever the aura was, In his head he knew that the aura was where he thought they should go. Since who knew what they could find out. What intel they could gain.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 9:16 pm
Page HercyniaAction: Holding up her device, too shy to vote. (though she'd vote for removing the girls) The lady who had the horns, and the teal skin, and the tail came with the group taking devices, and Hercynia was very hard pressed not to stare at her. She kept sneaking glances, her blue eyes very wide with their thick lashes in her angular face. Was that lady one of the Fae? She wasn't a knight, Hercynia could tell what knights felt like now. She didn't look like any senshi she had seen before though, but maybe that was just... a thing senshi could be? She really didn't know. She had so many questions!
One of the other girls distracted her tumbling thoughts with a bright hello and Hercynia bit her lip, giving the smallest of a shy raise of her hand in greeting. She was very pretty... her hair matched her outfit so well and the pink really suited her. Not nearly as captivating as the strange Faun girl, but all of them made Hercynia feel very awkward and gangly. And very inexperienced. Should she have come along for this mission? Was she going to be in the way? She would try her best not to be, but it was sort of inevitable.
When instructed, she carefully and diligently turned on her device, holding it out and up in the hopes being closer to the cameras would help it work better. With how tall she was, it just emphasized how long Hercynia was... hovering like a stork among the other colorful birds.
Trouble was soon to follow though. The sound of music and movement announced a pair of girls as they approached the side door and Hercynia had a flash of worry for them. The bank was getting destroyed, from what she had gathered. It was dangerous here... and beyond the destruction, what if the Negaverse showed up? They could get caught in the fighting. Indecision wracked Hercynia, leaving her dithering over how to approach the situation. They needed to get the girls away as quickly as possible, but it was also hard to say anything to the others. Surely they knew better what to do in this situation. Her face was a mask of concern and pleading as she glanced around the group, hoping someone else would speak up with the right thing to do.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 9:20 pm
Squire Spei of the MoonChoice: continue processing the audio Once he learned about the bank affair, Yukio couldn't not help. He wasn't a black hat hacker, nor was he a white hat hacker – in truth, he was more of a grey hat hacker, breaking into computer systems out of both enlightened self-interest and for the fun of it. And he knew this was going to be a fun hack. Spei was already tapping away on the keyboard of the laptop he'd procured, sitting cross-legged on the rooftop, when Chaldene plopped down next to him. "Absolutely work together," he said with a nod. He knew the Eternal both in non-powered life as well as powered, they had worked together hacking into various systems just to see if they could for years, and to find out the other was also part of this war against the Negaverse… well, that just seemed fitting. "It's a piece of cake, relatively speaking. Much like any other banking system." Hopping into Discord via VPN, he passed along the codes to get into the system to Chaldene. "I'm actually hoping they do have their own hackers," he commented, glancing over at his friend. "It'd make this more of a challenge." Using his music software, Spei began to refine and process the audio recordings he'd accessed from the bank. "Interesting…" Then he felt them – the Chaos agent that materialized in the alley below. "s**t," he muttered. He knew they couldn't stop now, not while they were getting somewhere with the hacked audio. The cats were masking their auras; it wouldn't do to draw attention to themselves by attacking or even investigating the intrusion. Best, he thought, to continue working on cracking that audio and searching for evidence that way. "Feel that? Damn Nega. I'm not going down there," he told Chaldene with a shake of his head. "We're making too much progress up here."
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 9:35 pm
Eternal Chaldene.Choice:continue processing the audioLike the moon knight at his side Chaldene would neither call himself black hat nor white hat, he was somewhere inbetween, it all depended on what he was hacking and why he was doing it. Most of the time it was for the challenge, to see where he could get into and what he could learn, he might share it with a few poeople or he might not. But he didn't release things to the wide public or sell information. He wasn't about that, nor would he ever be.
With his own headset on he'd joined Spei in a discord so he could grab whatever files he needed, things this laptop didn't have loaded on it. "One of these nights I'm going to have you send me the audio programs you use, I might one day need them." Like now. He'd never used much for audio files, not like what the other likely had, as he'd never needed such programs. He had programs but nothing like the other had.
"It would be boring if they don't have their own team working against us." Commenting as he worked on the files they had. It seemed interesting and if they didn't know any better he'd almost say the use of the word Captain could have been a joke or even some friendly nickname of sorts. But given what they knew the word, and everyhthing else they had picked up so far, proved the idea of the Negaverse being involved in things to be true. "Mmm, fI can feel it."
Of course he could feel the agent who had turned up, his senses were stronger than the knight at his sides were. "I'm not going down either. I'd rather keep working on this." The more people working on it the faster they'd have what they needed. Not to mention he'd be better suited to remaining here incase they were somehow discovered...he could keep his friend safe, if it came to that.
"So long as we all keep our heads down and no one peeks over the rooftop ledge we'll be fine." Meaning no one should stand up or anything. They did not need attention brought to themselves up here. While he spoke, his voice kept low, the eternal kept working on the laptop, trying to figure out this audio file as best he could. "I'm really hoping for more incriminating things, so far it's rather weak." Even if they knew, for certain, the Negaverse was behind things. he just wished for that smoking gun here.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 9:46 pm
Sailor CepheusSticking with her taskCepheus had told Anakeion she'd stay out of trouble and she was sticking to that, really...! Besides, she'd already started working, she couldn't stop without completely disrupting her own fragile train of thought.
Audio editing wasn't her specialty, but it wasn't awful? She was a lot better at it than most people probably were. It was just one of those things she'd mostly picked up by herself over the years, slowly, via a lot of tutorial videos.
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2023 12:53 pm
Sailor Koeia, Deep Space Senshi of MiraclesAction: Voting to offer to help them film Koeia watched as the lights on the camera flickered out of control from the device she had been given. She was glad the system was so easy to remove but she was still weary, if there was a back system or some kind of trap. She didn't like the soon they finished and demolished this build the better.
She noticed suddenly two human children dancing in front of one of the walls with one seeming to record the other's silly movements. The sight would have filled her old heart with warmth, seeing young humans on the verge of their adulthood still finding time for play and joy, however they were in danger. Soon enough that wall would come down, the whole building would come down. They needed to leave.
"We should help those young ladies finish their recording so they will leave, they're in danger here" She spoke to her companions who were also shutting down the cameras. Quote: Koeia is open for interaction
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2023 2:08 pm
Targovishte Squire of JupiterFinding the AuraTargovishte hesitated, frowning slightly and glancing to where the chaotic aura was coming from. “Look. This isn’t what I thought I’d be doing, this isn’t any kind of software that I’m used to, what do you say you and I go figure out who the big bad wolf is out there? I think we can handle ourselves pretty well now, and I have shoes that won’t screw me over like my old ones did.”
The smirk she gave Belmont as she wiggled her foot was half amused, and half worried.
It was better that they go out and take care of the issue before it became a bigger issue…and then they could hopefully give the ones who knew what they were doing the time to get…whatever it was they were trying to get.
…Evidence? God she hoped it wasn’t just evidence. She hoped that the ringleader of this knew what was going on and this wasn’t a wild goose chase of maybes and perhpases.
“You with me?”
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2023 3:42 pm
Corporal Vaylin of the Vanguard of VelencyaAction: Sticking with her task because she doesn't have aura sense Valyin studied the recording. 'Captain', She knew of the titles given to each rank of the officers of the Negaverse. As she understood it Captain was equivalent to her own rank of Corporal. It could be worse, there could be much more trouble with one of the Negaverse's royalty had been behind this. She did not know much about them as she had only seen them once but they gave off the same awe inspiring presence of the Commodore, the feeling that if she ever fought one of them she would surely die.
Still even if the puppet master was not a major concern the rest of the recording did bother her. They were using alot of energy? To do what? She had thought the bank was a scheme to take energy, but clearly that hypothesis was wrong or at least incomplete. If they were spending alot of energy on something other than the bank what could it be?
She decided to focus her efforts even harder on her task she hoped she might find some clue to whatever project was being worked here. She was not even paying attention to her ComTech so she didn't notice when a chaos aura suddenly flared to life. Quote: Vaylin is open for interaction
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2023 4:08 pm
Page Sigiriya of Ida is Voting to try to get them away as quickly as possibleThe devices were working. Sig knew this because the little camera lights were valiantly trying to stay on but it was pretty clear they weren’t working right. Should they just physically disable them as well? Or would that leave more of a trace then just scrambled tape? He was about to voice his questions when movement caught his eye. Incredulously he saw two teens, dressed in stereotypical hip-hop clothes, dancing in the bright lights. What were teens doing out right now? Let alone messing around right where they had a job to do. The way they were reacting the tech team’s devices were messing with the teen’s phones as well, both a good thing and a bad thing. Good because it wouldn’t record the group that had just descended from the rooftop, bad because the girls were starting to look around. “Bloody hell,” Sig cursed as he tried to stick to the shadows. He wanted to get the kids away, away from the danger both to themselves and to the group that was around Sig, but how? Green eyes took in his temporary teammates, “Ideas?” he asked quietly with a tilt of a head towards the two teens. When the strange colored lady ( Koeia) suggested they help them finish taping. “But wouldn’t that put us on tape? That doesn’t seem like a good idea. Then again I don't really understand what they are doing anyway so-” he drifted off with a shrug.
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Posted: Thu May 18, 2023 6:20 pm
Connie, Squire of ChronosChoice: Device - Let them film! When someone spoke to her, Connie practically gasped. She didn’t think anyone would be talking to her, but that was what she got for focusing more on her projects than going out and meeting other knights.
“Oh, I don’t know. Something more like--” she paused and then gasped again when she noticed the two teenagers and their dancing. “Something more like that! You know. Telling everyone in the city how the Negaverse is doing horrible things and that we should stand up and fight against them, or something like that,” she smiled, but it was sheepish and a little uncertain as she looked up at the other knight.
“We should help them film their dance, yeah? We don’t have to be in the video, but it’s better than what the Negaverse does, isn’t it? We at least won’t take their starseeds or energy or do horrible things,” she pointed out when one of the other knights (Sigiriya) voiced concern about being on tape.
“If you’re not a good dancer and not part of their routine, I doubt they’d want us participating,” she nodded wisely. “But they could spread the word that we’re trying to keep people safe from the Negaverse!”
It sounded like a good idea to her. And she looked up with pleading eyes at the knight (Meninx) who’d spoken to her before.
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2023 7:13 am
Eternal Hydor, Senshi of MesocyclonesAction: Still working with the laptops He felt like he was getting somewhere. He wasn't an expert at audio codecs--as someone who simply did not listen to music, messing with pirated audio had never been his thing, and it definitely wasn't now--but uncovering files and parsing through them was the most interesting part to him, anyway. They were working on something, something that Hydor already didn't like the sound of. What the ******** required so much energy that they seemed concerned about it-- Who the ******** was trying to small-talk him? Hydor glanced up from his laptop at this Cosmos squire, lips settling into a neutral line as he regarded him. "Yes." He went back to his laptop, digging for anything else to uncover.
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