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[team_sociopath]

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[Tommy's sitting cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by a tangle of wires and lit only by computer monitors scattered here and there. Computer equipment looms in the dim light, and now and then he turns to check something on one machine or another. Actually, he seems to know what he's doing. Mostly.]

So--

[he begins, turning to face the camera, moving to push his goggles up off his eyes, when suddenly something behind him explodes in a shower of sparks.]

Nonononono, not again!

[Whatever he was going to say is anyone's guess, as he fumbles to turn off the video feed and stop whatever is melting down from melting down.]



[ooc; duude, idek the first thing about the genre, really. ._. but hacker Tommy is here to... accidentally blow his shit up, more than anything else |D please imagine this was earlier (wednesdays suuuck) and it is massively backdating friendly!

also, he believes all this is untraceable and on secure channels, but it's just. not. <3]

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[inmyothertights]

[Billy peers over the sparks]

Oh, man, not another one!

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[team_sociopath]

[Tommy has grabbed an old t-shirt off the floor and is trying to use it to put out the fire threatening to start.]

Third one today. damnitdamnitdamnit.

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[inmyothertights]

[Billy grabs an old blanket that looks like it has been used many times for this exact purpose and assists]

Dude if you would take some time you wouldn't overload the motherboards!

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[team_sociopath]

Slow down and you get caught, bro.

[He leaves Billy to that and leans over to shut off some of the other units before they blow, too.]

Man, I was so close, too...

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[inmyothertights]

Scoot.

It's about precision.

[He takes some of the units in his hands and starts repairing them carefully]

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[team_sociopath]

Doesn't have to be.

[Tommy is more about the careful application of ridiculous amounts of brute force in as little time as possible. He hops over a tower and starts checking through the wires.]

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[inmyothertights]

Uh.

Yeah it does.

[And a motherboard is fixed with some twitching of Billy's magic fingers]

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[team_sociopath]

I totally almost had Deity files there.

[Until, you know, things exploded. This doesn't invalidate his hard work.]

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[inmyothertights]

How almost is totally almost? Like four levels of encryption? Because I got through four last week. Before they fed me a virus that snarled my CPU.

[deadly_legacy]

Tommy!? [Sounds worried]

(OOC: So, I hear you are friendly to my kind... *SO BEHIND* curse you meme! *shakes fist*)

[team_sociopath]

[After a moment.]

It's cool, it's cool. Nothing blew up. Much.

[deadly_legacy]

[She heard that "much"!] You're all right then? What happened?

[team_sociopath]

Too much info, not enough insulation. It's probably fixable.

It better be, I already friend three CPUs this week...

[deadly_legacy]

I didn't realize you were so interested in computers. [Someone isn't cursed and hasn't been paying much attention to the network.]

[team_sociopath]

Are you kidding? Me and Billy are pretty much the best there are.

[deadly_legacy]

You are? Are things blowing up common then?

[team_sociopath]

No!

Sometimes.

It depends.

[lookjustlike]

What's going on in there? If the neighbors complain again, we're going to have men in suits at our door.

[team_sociopath]

Nothing! Nothing. Absolutely nothing is exploding at all.

[lookjustlike]

Yeah, right.

I'm heading out to the topside market because it's about time we ate something that didn't come in a packet. Don't electrocute yourselves while I'm gone.

[team_sociopath]

I'm not incompetent, you know. It's just an overload, no big deal.

Food sounds good. Non-rehydrated food sounds really good. I approve of your plans.

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[lookjustlike]

Any requests?

[Really he is just popping his head in on his way out in order to asses the damage. And also so that it can be stated for the record that Teddy has even more piercings than usual, green streaks in his hair, and is carrying a breathing mask because of course it is totally polluted outside.]

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[team_sociopath]

[He looks up from his perch, crouched on the floor again and typing out incomprehensibly complex strings of code.]

I don't remember the last time I saw real meat?

[Tomorrow he will have to ask how you even fit more piercings, Teddy.]

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[lookjustlike]

[There are some really great retorts to that question, but not that Teddy is likely to say.]

Well, I'll do my best, but I'll consider myself lucky if I find 'not zucchini.'

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[team_sociopath]

[This is probably for the best.]

Yeah, sounds good. Need me to find a bank account to cover it?

[Tommy grins, idly flexing his fingers over the keys.]