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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]

Comments

[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.

[deadly_legacy]

[Smiles] It must be dangerous.

[team_sociopath]

Only if you get caught.

[deadly_legacy]

...By an explosion?

[team_sociopath]

...well, that too.

By the cops, or nastier hackers, or worse.

[deadly_legacy]

...You're doing something illegal?

[team_sociopath]

You can't make laws over pure information.




Well, you can, but it's ridiculous.

[deadly_legacy]

Then why would the police be looking to catch you?

[team_sociopath]

....Because maybe technically it's.....

Okay, so let's say it's illegal to do something, but the reasons it's illegal are bad reasons, bad people made the laws. If you're breaking bad laws aren't you doing kind of a good thing?

[deadly_legacy]

[Thoughtful pause because that is...VERY familiar.] I've always believed in trying to reform the system from within.

[team_sociopath]

Yeah, well. Tell that to the people on the inside.

[deadly_legacy]

I was where I came from.

...You are talking about your world and not here, right?

[team_sociopath]

Well, here for now. Since, y'know, it's where we are. Until we can bust out.

[deadly_legacy]

But... Those issues don't really apply here, do they?

[team_sociopath]

They do when you're like, twelve seconds away from hacking the Deities' computers.

[deadly_legacy]

You are?!

[team_sociopath]

Was.

[deadly_legacy]

What do you think you would have found?

[team_sociopath]

A way out, I hope.