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| Staring | Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri |
| With | Nicole-Anne Bélanger, Simone-Marie Bélanger, IGARASHI Izanami |
| Introducing | Johanna Nelissen |
| Previous Episode | S02E02 – External Access Acquired |
| Next Episode | S02E04 – Instinct |
The team puts their disguise plans into action, exploring the Banded-occupied regions of the SCIRE. Fräulein plays the role of a White, with Nian, Siri, Izzie, and Liam as her four-man security detail. Shirayuri and Garbo take the role of Greens.
Session 1 - 2024/10/10
Green Eyed Monster
| Who | Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Nicole-Anne Bélanger, Simone-Marie Bélanger, IGARASHI Izanami |
| When | Monday, February 16, 2060 (Day 60) |
| Where | Executive Housing, SCIRE, Level 278 through Level 261 |
As they're doing their final preparations, the group discovers that Shirayuri has an exceptionally adverse reaction to the blue-toned eyedrops. They try bottles from two different batches, but it doesn't matter — she won't be able to pretend to be a Blue. She switches roles with Liam, pretending to be a Green instead of a Blue.
As they make their way through the populated areas, including a seemingly functional shopping mall, they're astounded by how normal things seem. The Banded look like people going about their lives albeit not as crowded as Izzie and Shirayuri expect. They see Greens both all service positions and just walking around normally, like people off-shift or on break.
The teenage Whites are in singletons or small groups, occasionally accompanied by an adult Green. Younger Whites always seem to have a four-man Blue security detail, which seems to earn them some deference from the others — the group benefits by having a similar grouping, a young White plus a Green entourage and Blue security.
They find that the elevators work normally for them, presumably due to the harvested and jury rigged Blue commlinks.
| Who | Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Nicole-Anne Bélanger, Simone-Marie Bélanger, IGARASHI Izanami |
| When | Monday, February 16, 2060 (Day 60) |
| Where | Hospital, SCIRE, Level 260 |
Seems like a normal Hospital, almost disturbingly so. Any arm exposed we see it has at least one band. Garbo and twins eyes need to be cleansed and then reapplied. We find an exam room to put them in so they can rest for a few hours. Security is very lax here, couple of points to slip in a door behind someone because no passkeys.
How fast is the conversion process for the population?
As of February 2060, approximately 20,000 people have been converted. Relatively few additional conversions are taking place on a daily basis.
What are the parameters of who gets converted and who does not?
Whites are exclusively children and young adults, under the age of 20. They all demonstrate technical aptitude (in other words, geeks and nerds). None are Awakened.
Greens are all adults with technical or administrative skills.
Blues are all adults with security or combat skills.
What is the significance of the tattooed black bands?
The bands represent the person's rank with in the hierarchy.
For greens and blues, it's simple rank-based authority - supervisors have more bands than underlings.
For whites, it represents the number of encounters they have had with the Deep Resonance, something they can seek out by choice.
File Search: IGARASHI Airi - Blue Banded, Rank 5
File Search: MUSUME Takeru - White Banded, Rank 2
Garbo recommends after we stop at a Karaoke place to rest we find a place that is an unoccupied business, like a travel agent.
Session 2 - 2024/10/17
| Who | Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri |
| When | Tuesday, February 17, 2060 (Day 61) |
| Where | Director Ushida's Residence, SCIRE, Level 259 |
Elevator car catches Fräulein's coat and it has to get cut off her, Nian also gets hit but she is fine.
Just about 50 meters from outside wall of SCIRE when we get into floor 259. It is a garden area, floor is taller than other floors and garden is in good shape. Looking upwards we can see sky. Roof 6 and a half or see meters above, but it looks like open sky. There is a flower garden, near edge of SCIRE probably as we go further in scent fades. Moving closer to middle, there is a wall that looks like from a historical Japanese village.
The door creaks as we go through, no one seems to notice though or come check. One of the nearby houses we use motion detector to find that there is one person inside sleeping. Using the endoscope, there is a man in pajamas sleeping inside. There is inside one building golf carts to get around. There is guards, blue eyed guarding the central manor.
The Manor seems to be a fully secured facility, cameras, maybe motion sensors and other modern defenses. Front and back Doors, two guards each, and one on patrol.
The building is wrapped in a Force 8 Ward.
Top Three Things to Grab:
His Home Node
The Director
The Director's Severed Head
Session 3 - 2024/10/24
| Who | Fräulein Ärtzin, Garbo, Liam, Shirayuri, Johanna Nelissen |
| When | Tuesday, February 17, 2060 (Day 61) |
| Where | Director Ushida's Residence, SCIRE, Level 259 |
Group will be going in through a window, probably on second story.
Fräulein using laser microphone finds windows, lots of windows, no sounds inside. We are going to use rope, Shirayuri jumping over with it to tie it on one end, and Liam on other so Liam and Garbo and climb over. They both make it, with some challenge. Inside a room on 3rd floor, there is a woman, well a doll, on a bed. It is warm, like a person.
Assensing: Appears to be healthy, Asleep, Mundane, 4.58 Essence, Beta Ware in head and chest. No breathing, no heart, no astral signatures, no diseases or maladies.
Top floor was a gaming room and bar.
On third floor again we end up going into her room, Shirayuri and Liam end up waking her up. She is strangely calm, and notes that Ushida also has green eyes. The tube handles all her bodily functions. After he got converted he went more nuts (Neurotic?). He was converted prior to the shutdown. Johanna is some sort of Germanic or Nordic. There is a plan, because he is unhappy with the speed of progress. She has not seen him in 9 days, he visits when he needs stress release. She is a Renraku Citizen, there is definitely some corporate loyalty thing going on here along with Stockholm syndrome like things. Johanna was in human resources. He has 7 Bands on his arm. She has heard of Deep Resonance before, but no idea what it means and he, well she does not want to say he was annoyed, but there was something he was missing out on. She has from when she studying psychology she has a thing that lets her record her dreams.
References
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