The house of Dracos

[Dracos]

"You know, there is such a thing as reading over my shoulder, ya fucknut."

Dracos shows the email via ...having it up on his own screen!

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"Well, you could have offered before, rather than just forwarding it to me when I'm standing right NEXT TO YOU..  Nyah."

Rez read!

And blinked.

"I agree.  What the fuck was that about, and why the hell did he copy it to you?"

[Dracos]

"But that would not have been geekish.  You know the system.  The closer two geeks are, the more complicated the communication method we are supposed to use.  I mean, I should've encrypted it and sent it via certified pentagon mail."

Dracos shrugged.

"And prolly the same crack that Gin is smokin'.  Knowing shade he's simply descended into paranoid madness.  Probably cracked and started thinking life was a role playing game or something."

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"As opposed to running halfway around the world because an AI told me to, after it got caught hacking into the Vatican's secret database?"

Rez grinned.

[Brian]

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Computer Programming check:
<Chibi-Suu> Them bones was tossed for Brian ... : 3d6 --> 6
Crytography check:
<Chibi-Suu> Them bones was tossed for Brian ... : 3d6 --> 9

Rez: Fortunately, you had the foresight when coding on the plane to make your little brute-force entrypter work with multiple copies of itself across a LAN, so you've quickly managed to create a small multi-processor cluster out of Dracos's cludged together 'guest' computers.  One of them has its library shifted over specifically to Biblical and Roman quotes -- all told, the program reports that it should finish trying all possibilities within about two weeks.

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Deduction check:
<Chibi-Suu> Them bones was tossed for Brian ... :3d6 --> 12
Dracos: It occurs to you that if Rez is worried, Ayame appeared to consider hotmail safe enough.

Ginrai: Though quickly settled in, the TV (and attached PS3) are unclaimed, and you see a shiny new copy of Disgaea 2 sitting out.

[Rezantis]

"Dammit.  Hey, Drac, can I nick more cycals from somewhere?"

[Ginrai]

Before settling in to play Disgaea 2, Ginrai decides to check up on his e-mail.

"AH, SHIT!" he screams after reading Shade's e-mail.

Ginrai decides to send a copy of the e-mail he sent to Shade to Bjorn as well as Dracos and Rez since he already started to talk with them about what happened.

[Dracos]

"Well I can see about if some of the side servers are free, but if they get busy you better be logging off.  Oh yeah, ayame's email is ad3lphi_reader@hotmail.com.  Cha?"  Dracos logs into work over his modem, checking to see how the servers are being used and whether he thinks he can get away with snatching a bit off the top.

Dracos

[Brian]

You can connect to the servers at work, and, of course, everyone else is gone for the holiday.  It would be inefficient to run the program from there, however, unless you also put a copy of the encrypted file (about 580 MB) on those systems.  No one would mind, since no one else is using the computers for anything at the moment, but you would have to be quite careful about covering your tracks, unless you wanted to let people know what you've been up to.

And, of course, the IT guys keep an eye out for CD-sized data-transfers for obvious reasons.

[Dracos]

"Somehow I don't think it's going to be efficient at all to try and use the company network.  I can't setup them to be accessed by the network longterm and I doubt I can swipe enough cycles without leaving a noticable trail in the usage logs that'll have annoying questions asked.  Sorry man."

Dracos

[Ginrai]

Ginrai shouts from his room, "Drac, Rez!  New e-mail!"

Afterwards he starts up the PS3 and plays Disgaea 2.

[Dracos]

"Roight...Gin, why didn't you just aim us like proper people would?  Seriously?"

Dracos sighs.

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"Because we're in the same damn house, Drac.  AIM is not required unless we're having more than one conversation at a time - like, say, an argument about what kind of pizza to get and another simultaneous argument about who's going to get it."

Rez hums, then snaps his fingers.

"Drac, can I use your computer for a sec?  If they're tracking you by MAC addressses (and the Gods alone know how that'd be possible) then I'd rather not surf out via my laptop."

[Dracos]

"Sure."

Dracos allows Rez the usage of: The Portable God mk V.

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"Exxxxxcellent.  Contact details for Ayame?"