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"No need to force it Leo. If he doesn't want to do anything with it, you'll just have to make the most of the next few hours." Imprinting it would have been useful, but Tim probably had more important things to work on. If they couldn't get another, then it made sense to obtain as much info as possible about it now.

 

Not imprinting it might be for  the best, Harry considered. He wanted too keep most of the possible biohazards contained in a location with the means to deal with containment breaches. If Time imprinted stuff like this--though this one seemed relatively mild in terms of threat--, there was always the possibility that he'd reproduce it on some random world like Earth Bet, and either inadvertently giver some Biotinker villain a set of tools, or simply call the PRT down on his ass.

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"Good to see you. This is easily one of the most complete medical histories I've recieved, that makes things a hell of a lot easier."

 

"The life extension procedure, how many years does that add, on average?" There were comparable procedures, though not specifically marketted as such, and Harry was curious what the extent of medical technology was in the "diplomat"s world.

 

"Dancing based necromancy, what a world. I'd be a bit more careful if I were you, getting weird effects from the blood of stuff you killed, picking up strange blood, visions of the future. . ."

 

"By the way, could you tell me a bit more about the time in this Tarraria place? I've heard some opinions on Leo and met him myself, but not really sure what to think yet. Want to know a bit more, since Kusuke seems to dislike him especially."

 

"What did Proddy teach me, eh? Well I don't quite remember the particulars of when I got what. . .Well I had the ability to to burst a blood vessel in my brain psionically--rather fitting don't you think--and I worked a bit on making that safer and more controllable. Worked a bit on lifting and messaging. Went to Proditor's homeworld actually, sadly we didn't get any of their psionics boosting gear. In short supply."

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Leo using some soil and a bit of the coal Tim gave him, creates small golmic implants for the small monster, to keep it alive.  One healing it and keeping it functioning, the other making soil out of magic to feed it.
 

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"Well that should do...Lets see...."
Before he can finish forming a new idea he spots something faintly glowing off in the corner. Moving over to investigate, he picks up a USB stick made of Gold. Its not to hard to tell its Golemic in nature.

Twirling it in his fingers he mumbles over it, "Well now, where did you come from?"
"Snow would you-"

"Already on it....Sandbox Ready"

Leo plugs the USB into Snow's port, then brings up a connection on his computer to check it out with her.
 

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Leo pokes his head out of the bus and tells frostbrute to go tell the party he found this thing.
Just in case.

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Alan quickly flipped out his commlink as he got Frostbrute's message, flicking through his list of contacts for a while before he realized that despite everything, he still managed to miss this 'Leo' person when he was handing out his commlinks, and he let out a slight sigh before he picked his cyberdeck and a spare commlink up and walked off towards the bus itself.

 

Alan waved at the weird little man carrying a sword around the place before he introduced himself with "Hey, I don't think we've met before, my name is Alan, Alan Tzar (pronounced Tschar); you said that you found a...USB stick made out of gold in the bus?"

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"Im Leo. And yes."
He holds up his sword, which has a Golden, Glowing, USB stick shoved into its pommel. A robotic Eye like thing is staring forward.
"Snow is currently accessing it through a Sandbox"
"Your welcome by the way"

"The USB itself is running three programs in its core as part of the background. A file type I don't recognize, a Polymorphic Data file, and an Executable."
 

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Alan didn't even bat an eyelash at the fact that Leo's sword was both talking and a person, instead deciding to ask, "Well I know what an executable is, but can you explain what a polymorphic data file is? I've never encountered something of that name before, and...are you saying that the USB drive is capable of running data files on it's own? Because I don't know about you, but it doesn't seem like a good idea to just allow strange data drives to run unknown programs on your friend over there without knowing what they do."

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Snow attempts to snoop around, and divine the purpose and activity of the programs in the USB Core.

 

It's extremely difficult for her to tell, but...

 

WaveImp.mon seems to be idling, drawing information generated by the .pol file.  It is throwing up errors periodically.

 

Moment.exe, however, seems to be responsible for controlling a complex enchantment worked into the USB Core, which prevents it from shifting through time while activated.  The enchantment holds a few markers that Leo is familiar with.  It is currently active and suppressing the temporal energies trying to drag the core through time.

 

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Snow detects an anomaly outside of the sandbox, a poke she can intuit was to check if she had been paying attention to an area normally left unwatched by her security.  A quick surge of blood mana from Leo staves off any further probing by processing data with undertones of his intentions.

 

This event coincides with another small series of errors cropping up in the WaveImp Program, only some of which are suppressed.

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"Its running the programs on its OWN core. And she's interfacing with it through a sandbox anyways."
Snow starts to project her avatar out of her "Eye" projector.

"Polymorphic data is a self evolving, adaptive type of data usualy created through magic. Acting like a living organism many AI use it to allow flexible and controlled unpredictable behavior. Though I myself use specialized hardware instead."

"This is strange though. Its enchantments are showing signs of my own work, but I never made this to my memory. Its concerning that it's started poking at you. We could be looking at an AI. Can you create a Stimulatory space in the sandbox, and try to establish communication?" 

"I can try. No promises I can get the programs interfacing with it"

 

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Alan scratches the bottom of his chin for a little as he thinks over what Leo just said to him, he's worked with AI before but that's sort of the thing, he's worked with them, never on them...but then again after what he managed to pull against ADVENT, would it really hurt to try?

"Anything I can do to help? I've mostly worked on drones and such since I got here but I'm admittedly a better hacker and programmer than an engineer, especially since I'm learning to hack into reality,  and since I can interface directly with machinery, of course if Snow there objects to having company then I don't mind."

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"Sure, help me build this...."

With the help of a USB splitter, And the combined efforts of Snow, Leo, and Alan, a simspace is soon created for interaction.

 

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"Nothing immediately obvious...Lets connect and see if we can't find anything"

Leo lays snow down on her side and ask her to project 3D maps, and diagrams of the simspace, while he himself brings up multiple screens on his computer. The full color one gets a direct visual representation, from the perspective of a simple avatar he will create, while the holoscreens display various charts and lines of code.

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Alan creates several sniffer programs, and sends them into the simulated space to try and piece out where the other programs are hiding.

 

Several of the sniffers are getting picked off and deleted in a specific area, before they can report back, narrowing the area that the other two programs could be hiding.

The uppermost areas of the clock tower seem to be where the sniffers are going offline.


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Leo, meanwhile, establishes an avatar, manually following along and checking those areas.

Eventually, they spot trails of... something.

The trail goes dead near a particularly complicated piece of giant clockwork, gears with huge cylinders cut out of them are stained with the colorful substance.

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Leo runs various checks on the substance, But gets little back, aside from the fact the data is to some extent anomalous in nature.

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"Curious....Not entirely unexpected."
He proceeds to check of the clockwork and finds that it likely moved this data upwards. Was this stuff supposed to be here, or was it some kind of malware or corrupt code?
 

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Obviously the trail would have to be followed, so Leo began to ascend the tower. There didn't seem to be anything around here anyways.

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In response to this troubling discovery, Alan quickly writes up some basic hunter killer programs to help defend himself in case trouble rears it's ugly head.

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He then sends out another wave of sniffer drones to map out the inner mechanisms of the clockwork to give him the slight edge he'd need to try and ascend the tower through the gears itself, of course making sure to tell Leo what he's planning with a, "As soon as my sniffers finish mapping this place out I'll meet you at the top, going to try and follow whatever left this trail through the gears."

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Eventually, the duo ascend the stairs and gears to the highest floor of the Moment Clock Tower.  Golden light shines through a towering clock face, frozen at 12:00 as the second hand continually ticks forward, and then clicks back.  A trail of fluid trails it's way to a figure silhouetted against the clock face, revealing it's nature as some sort of vital fluid, dripping from heavy wounds covering the shadowed shape.  The unique properties of blood.  A thick bundle of what look like flowers are held under one arm.  The flowers continually bloom, emitting petals at a constant rate.

 

"You can't still be following me." The figure speaks.

 

"You CAN'T still be following me!" The reedy male voice shouts, repeating themselves.

 

The Clock Face flashes brightly before becoming transparent. The inside of the bus is displayed behind the clock face, as if through a fisheye lens in ultraviolet monochrome.

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The figure of Leo's avatar raises its hands.
Leo speaks, allowing his voice to be processed and translated into data for the avatar.
"Its alright, we just want to talk. Why don't you tell us whats going on? Your injured aren't you? Please tell us what happened."

 

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Alan keeps his hands in his pockets as he walks into view, knowing full well that raising his hands would be a futile gesture that wouldn't do much to prevent him from trying something, "More to the point do you know who's hunting you besides us? I'd like to know if I should be expecting company."

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"..."

 

They freeze, head tilting slightly.

 

"You're...?"

 

(2, 7) (14) (71)  Their face twists into a grimace.

 

Suddenly, the USB Stick, Simulation, and Projection all start to emit blinding, strobing white light.

 

(8, 15) (6, 8 ) (6, 2)

 

Leo and Alan are blinded!

 

"Batspaps Who-ong Mapsmentus Kashamoto Amnnoir!" Leo hears shouted, before something is driven into his gut, doubling him over.

Any others nearby who avoided being blinded would see a blue imp being ripped bodily out of the flash drive attached to Snow, before throwing it's legs into Leo's stomach in a picturesque dropkick before landing.

With it's injuries, it looks as though it was painful to both parties.

 

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Alan instinctively reeled from the unfortunately inescapable VR goggles a little when the being they had encountered burst into reality, and he let out a slight curse inside of the cyberspace as he blindly tried to find and access  one of the exits he had made earlier with the help of his sniffers.

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Leo groans as he recoils from the flash and kick before planting his feet firmly, Eyes watering, barely opening and closing as he tries to see again. He needs to NOT take to much damage while blinded, so he focuses his body energy and starts emitting force to protect himself as he draws the starfury. His computer switching into shield mode.
"Hnnnggg...CORONA!"


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Leo Activates the effect of the Terrarian golden scouter, Casting a Level one Analyze spell on the WaveImp. And granting himself +2 Res against its attacks as a result
"Lets see....Whats wrong with you."

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Corona raises Leo's Res by 3, and lowers his Dex by 1. He also Looses 1 HP per turn.
His armor grants +1 Res, and +2 res against magical attacks
His shield grants plus one Res

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Stumbling away, WaveImpmon grabs a gun at random, firing it at the door, where it pings off harmlessly.

 

"What the?  I thought..."

 

Shaking his head, he levels the gun at Leo and Alan.

 

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The bus then parks with a loud rumble and jerk, throwing them into the reinforced drone bay, and then onto the ground, unconscious.

It arrives in a dark open place.

To the right of the bus, A plant is growing up from the nothing stretching down forever.

It is topped with a black flower, the flower has bloomed, and inside it, a Rotary Dial Phone is Ringing.  The Bus has pulled up so that the door opens directly next to this mysterious phone.

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Leo rubs his head, dropping his Corona as his sight returns. A quick look over the data his scanner sent back shows at least some of the problem.

"The Little guy is hurt pretty bad. On top of its previous wounds, its suffered Data Scouring in its transition."

"Nothing is left in the USB to restore to it. The only thing in there is moment.exe"

"He needs healing. Ill see if I can't find something to bind him"
 

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Alan jumped back into reality in a cold sweat, as he quickly realized that he was already facing down the barrel of a gun; letting out a slight sigh before the sudden braking maneuver threw the little guy across the bus, and made him momentarily flop like a fish. He brushed himself off a little as he stood up, before he cracked his knuckles and said, "I've never tried this on an actual person before, but if this works, then I don't think that you'll need anything to bind his wounds," before he took his cyberdeck up, and started to hack into reality once more.

 

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Only to end up causing the situation to go a whole lot worse as WaveImpMon's remaining wounds starts to bleed even faster than they did before as a glowing sphere seemingly appears out of nowhere to orbit it, "Uhhhh, this isn't supposed to happen, hold on I think I can-," Alan said before he tries to hack into whatever the sphere is and dispel it out of existence.

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"Not a binding for his wounds, A binding for him. Need to keep him from attacking again"
Leo picks up some gold, and, turning it over in his hands, realizes its far denser and heavier then it should be from what his sight is telling him.

After muttering a spell over it, he holds it in his hands as it slowllyyyy is made to reshape itself. Molecules being rearranged at his command. 

"Gold Warped into a 4D shape...Intresting. This should do fine..."
 

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