Mazie | LORE (_lore_) wrote in rrinitiative, @ 2013-04-27 12:35:00 |
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Entry tags: | jim, mazie, rusty |
Hitting the fan
Who: Mazie, Glitch, and Rusty
When: Late late late
Where: Rusty's room
It was safe to say that Rusty was panicking. "Oh...oh shit." he said, staring at the message on his screen. "Oh, that's not good, this is badness, oh the bad. Nooo....Mazie, make that stop!" he said, pointing to his screen.
Mazie didn't remember the last time she slept. She was so very tired. She was on the floor of Rusty's room, lying on her back with her knees turned up and a pillow under her head, eyes drooping, when Rusty's voice came through. It took a moment for the tone to set it, for the panic to register, and then she was sitting up, her laptop off to the side and mostly closed.
Eyes wide and body tense, she rushed up to lean extremely close to Rusty's computer and read the message, sure her own computer reflected it. "…..fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck! This was not supposed to happen!" Making a few crazed movements with her fingers against the keys on Rusty's keyboard, Mazie shook her head. "Not good, Rusty! This is not good!"
"I'm sorry! I didn't--I mean, I didn't even think I'd do anything at all, really, this is all you guys but I must have fucked something up, I tripped something, or...I'm sorry!" He rambled, moving out of the seat so she could take it, and hopefully fix this. He started pacing immediately, Jessy in his head cackling.
“What? Rus, no...that’s not...” Sighing as she typed something else out, she shook her head. “That’s not what I meant, it’s not your fault! We just...something is wrong, something that we didn’t foresee is wrong, don’t mean that you aren’t good at this.” Watching the screen again, Mazie glared at it, coming narrowly close to taking her anger out on the keyboard itself. “What the fuck is happening....”
Glitch had been in the bathroom when the swearing started which he might have ignored given the amount of cursing that had been thrown out since they started work but on hearing the panic in their voices, he scrambled into the main room as quickly as he could. “What is it guys?” he asked, wiping his hands on his jeans as he made his way over to the desk, expression serious.
Rusty pointed to the screen at his computer. "That! It's doing that! And I don't have to tell you that isn't good! It's my fault, I'm sorry. I don't know what I did." he said, ignoring where Mazie was letting him off the hook, because he was positive it was him. It sure wasn't Glitch, who'd been...pooping or something. And he was too good to trip over something like that, he was sure. And Mazie hadn't been actively doing anything either. So, as far as he could tell, this was totally on him.
"Rusty, it is not your fault!" Mazie said, trying to hit that home as she looked back at the screen. Sighing, she finally sat back after another long moment and shook her head. "I think we're boned, gentlemen…We can work on this all day, but I haven't found anything yet. Maybe it's a defense that we didn't see in their original code, maybe it's like a final wall against us, just shut the system down, you know?"
Frowning as he read the message on screen, Glitch tried to recall if he’d seen anything similar before when battling security systems and scratched at the stubble on his chin before tapping out a couple of commands that, frustratingly if unsurprisingly, had no effect. “Could be that,” he said to Mazie’s assessment, his fingers starting to twitch. “Makes sense they’d have some kind of fail safe like that but this...” He shook his head. “It doesn’t feel like a security protocol.”
"I was the only one touching keys at the time! And it was a bad touch, that much is quite clear!" Rusty said, still pacing around in a panic. "What'll we do? Do we just not say anything? Do we keep working? Do you guys want me to step forward and own up, so only one of us gets thrown out?"
Mazie stood up and went for Rusty, putting her hands on his shoulders to stop him from pacing. "Rusty, look at me," She said, catching his eyes as best she could. "You are not taking the fall for this, you hear? If you do that and they take you away, you'd better believe your sweet ass I will find a way to find you from inside here and I will pester the shit out of you for the rest of your life. You will never be able to play Plants Vs. Zombies again." She didn't much know if that was true, but it was the best threat she had right now to keep him from rushing off and falling on his sword for them. "We are in this together and we, together, will come up with a plan. Right, Glitch?"
“Right. All for one, one for all,” Glitch replied, turning away from the computer to look at Rusty properly or as much as he could around the younger man’s flailing. “Even if this is a result of what we’ve been doing and I ain’t entirely convinced it is yet, we did it, team...whatever our team name is so don’t go throwing yourself under the bus Rus. Regardless of where we go from here, we’re gonna need you as well.”
You are so good at this friend thing! Jessy murmured. Super great. This one'll haunt you forever if you don't do what she wants! All for one and one for-- "Okay," he said, still looking massively unsure of himself, and unconvinced, but he was clearly going to give in to what they were saying. "Okay." he repeated to himself.
Mazie watched him again for a moment, eyes narrowing in seriousness. “I mean it, Rusty. You aren’t taking the fall for us. No Patsy in this team.” She squeezed his shoulder and then let go, moving to look back at the computer. “So, team, what do we do? Work on it or make up an alibi?”
“Don’t see why we can’t do both,” Glitch pointed out, shifting out of Maizie’s way and leaning down to grab her laptop. “Though do we really need an alibi? I mean who else knows we’re working on this? Far as anyone else knows, this could just another administrator screw up, just like the when the backup generators failed when that blackout happened.”
"I haven't told anyone." Rusty said. "I...er...sorta only talk to you guys very often." he admitted. Socially, he was inept at best, and he knew it. Plus, it seemed like every conversation he'd had otherwise (with the exception of the one with the cook) could have been labeled under the 'are you high?' field.
Mazie sat down on Rusty's bed and ran her hands through her hair. "I have a couple people who know something of what we're doing, but not everything. They would never say anything, though. I only told the people I trust." Looking back at the two of them, she focused on Jim. "What about you, Glitch?"
The older man shook his head. “Nope, I haven’t spoken to anyone.” Which, given his tendency to not actually think about what came out of his mouth, was quite an achievement - his mom would be so proud, though probably not about attempting to hack into his new prisons security feed. “So what do you reckon? We keep quiet, plead ignorance when the shit hits the fan?” Which as a plan, he was all for.
Rusty stared at her. "...I thought this place hadn't been up and running that long. You seriously trust people?" he asked. Because you haven't done that with these two? Jessy asked. Shut up. It's different. They're hackers, I...sorta fit in here. he protested, even if he knew it was stupid. You keep tellin yourself that, cupcake.
Mazie watched him, frowning a little more. "Yeah, I trust people here. I trust you guys, I trust a couple other people here." Who were going to remain nameless for the sake of just being as safe as possible. "I trust people here and a couple people know. But they wouldn't rat us out."
Noting the way Mazie was sticking strictly to pronouns, Glitch figured she wasn’t going to be saying who knew what they were up to which didn’t exactly sit comfortably with him, even if they weren’t up on the details. “No offence Lore but these folk are your friends, they don’t know me and Rus’ and we don’t know them. For all I know, if this does blow up in our faces, who’s to say they won’t back you and give us up?” He jerked his thumb towards him and Rusty. “I say we keep on the down low, play dumb if your friends ask and let Big Brother take the hit.”
"I'm with him." Rusty said, nodding emphatically to Glitch's statement. He wanted to trust via Mazie, but it was hard. Because he didn't know many people, and yeah. He knew how that went. Just because someone was a friend of a friend didn't make them a friend of yours.
"I wouldn't let them do that, and they wouldn't rat you out in the first place…" Mazie said, frowning more as she spoke. Sighing, she closed her eyes and just weighed their options. "Ok, fine, but I'm still going to work on it and try to fix this. At least for a little while longer. If we still can't get anything settled, I guess we just have to wait and see how They react."
“Didn’t say we shouldn’t do that mon capitaine,” Glitch said, reaching over to squeeze her shoulder. “I’m all about the trying to fix, I just don’t wants us to wind up getting hamstrung if we can’t.” He knew he didn’t need to go on anymore though and stopped pressing the point, instead picked up Mazie’s laptop and handed to her.
"...you know you can't actually control other people, right? It isn't up to you to 'let' people tell or not, if they're gonna, you can't stop them." Rusty said, totally uncertain with everything now. But that sort of seemed like one heck of an oversight. "But...yeah, let's just...er...regroup." he said. "I'll do whatever you guys want."
"They wouldn't tell…" She said again, trying not to sound annoyed even if it was coming through whether she wanted it to or not. "I can't go back in time and un-tell them." Taking her computer, she opened it again and sighed. "I just want to see if it's something obvious and we're just missing it. If it is, great, if it isn't…I'll stop and we can just wait it out. Deal, Team?"
He wasn't really in a smiling mood, too much on edge for his trademark easy grin, but Glitch managed to summon a small one for the benefit of his friends. "Deal," he replied, nodding firmly.
"Sure." Rusty said. Say 'deal', dumbass. Jessy muttered. "Deal." he repeated dutifully for the totally not real voice in his head. This...was going to be rough.