[Locked to New Hires]

[hallelujahjunction]

[Dan shows up on video, clearly on the muggy roof trying to get one of his contraband cigarettes in without ending up butterfly chow. It's put him in a good mood, adding the spice of daring-do to the morning smoke. He's got a sneaky grin on his face.

Better to actually get to work on doing something instead of wallowing in raw memories.]

Hypothetical question. [He glances over his shoulder and sees that none of the wildlife is about to attack him, then takes a drag.] If you could pick Planker's brain, what would you want to know?

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[onequartershark]

Surveillance blindspots where he likes to hang out alone and unarmed.

[ She is blunt and to the point. ]

[hallelujahjunction]

[Dan watches a butterfly off-screen before determining it isn't about to swoop in on him. He doesn't show on his face that he's got any hesitation about this flight of fancy escalating into violence, but it's there.]

Sounds tactical. I reckon you got follow-up plans?

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[valkywhee]

Find out why he sucks so much.

[Thanks, Nora.]

[hallelujahjunction]

Honestly? This plan might turn into finding out "if" instead of "why" on that question, if you catch my strategy here.

[wheyoftheadept]

every last goddamned one of his security codes

[hallelujahjunction]

Hate to remind you that I can't read none, Saturday.

[private to Saturday]

[credit_not_blame]

I have an idea, but I'm going to need some back-up.

Remember that weird magic key I have?

[freakenstein]

That's assuming he has a brain to pick and that his head isn't just filled up with gun porn and a roll-a-dex of new torture plans.

But on a more serious note: Any information he might have had on us. How Jorgmund actually got a hold of us, and what their broader plans for us are.

[hallelujahjunction]

[Dan nods.] I reckon their plans are to squeeze us dry of labor, but I definitely want to know how it is they're finding and grabbing us.

[ownperson]

Any voice-based activation codes the fucker uses around the rig.

[ She has her reasons. ]

[hallelujahjunction]

[Dan nods.]

We got someone who can mimic voices, for the ones that are pegged to his particular baritone?

[zerg_rush]

How the "shock collars" work and how to disable them, rig layout, major power and network junctions, his routines, other exec routines, security codes, security system specs, security camera arrangements, guard rotations, average guard response time.

[She might be a professional assassin.]

But he wears a psi-blocker so it's not happening.

[hallelujahjunction]

[Dan doesn't disagree with any of this. What Kerrigan's asking for is more than the reasonable type and amount of intelligence that one would need to try and, say, stage a coup in a technologically-advanced rolling slave ship. It's also not the sort of things that Dan would necessarily think to ask, since his industry involves much more asking about where someone's grandma is buried and whether werewolves are allergic to chocolate than anything involving tactics or moving units of people and systems.

So even though he's grinning as he steps out of sight of another low-flying butterfly, his tone is serious and respectful as he addresses Kerrigan.]

I'd say you're going to need to write this down for me, but that wouldn't work. Anyhow. If this goes according to plan, this pillow talk is going to be a little unorthodox.

[drladysounds]

[Hypothetical question, he says. Half of the time anyone using that word doesn't mean it as a hypothetical scenario, she thinks]

I'm going to be doing so many finger quotes you'd think I have a tic on my hands.

[That sort of thing works only when you're talking face to face, Shelley]

Planker as in the trainer that's built like a brick and is completely unaware of the words 'positive reinforcement', right? Sorry for asking, but has he also done anything else that could make him a good target for hypothetical scenarios? Or is he being targeted just for strategic reasons?

[Don't get her wrong, having to face some really miserable training sessions every other day is a good enough reason to target him for shenanigans, but she suspects that, unless everybody is thin-skinned and is fed up with his way of shouting like he does, there must be other reasons, reasons she's unaware of.

She certainly isn't dissuading Dan, though. By all means, pick on his brain]

[hallelujahjunction]

[Dan tilts his head to the side, because he still doesn't quite know how the whole finger-quotes thing works, and suspects it's one of those things that's a crossover from the written world that he's never going to have the full context for. He looks out for butterflies and, more importantly, for anyone listening in as he has Alexa read out the text.]

We see him every day and he's got access to the dangerous side of this operations that my secretary pool friends don't. Plus, I reckon he's got real straightforward tastes.

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[credit_not_blame]

[putt putt putt ding! goes Stacia's brain as she considers this post and the discussion within.]

You got a location in mind? So someone can be nearby if you need to yell for help?

[hallelujahjunction]

I was hoping Planker would take me up to his room, if I didn't start off there. Much as I appreciate the backup, I can't see how sending a wolf in if I start screaming would make anything better. [He smiles.] Unless you mean a different way to help?

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[heterochrocatic]

What the hell happened to him as a kid to make him such a dickhead.

Not that I care specifically but I want to make sure my trauma isn't the same as his.

[hallelujahjunction]

I'm betting he was dropped on his head.

Either way, if it is the same trauma, you can rest easy knowing that you're crushing it in comparison.

[walkingballpit]

Woah. That’s an intense question.

[ Not a bad question, just a loaded one. Robbie’s down with telepathically swiping intel, but it’s a question of what you do with it. ]

I’d want his unvarnished thoughts and opinions on all the employees he knows. Who does he think is soft on us, who’s under suspicion, that sort of thing.

And the passcode to that funhouse of his, and where to find the blueprints. I’m pretty sure that we could liberate some lasers and tech.

[hallelujahjunction]

[Dan nods.]

I've had plenty of hookups where the pillowtalk was gossip about coworkers. That should be straightforward enough. Reckon I might need to brainstorm to think of how to casually drop 'gimme the passcodes' into a bedroom conversation without making it crystal obvious that I ain't jumping Planker for his pecs.

[Locked to Dan]

[bringinghopewithme]

Look, I'm not objecting, I just can't figure out how this even tolerable for you.

[hallelujahjunction]

Honey, you still got no idea about what's tolerable to me.

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[pathkin]

[It's a text post, but the text-to-speech option can read it clearly.]

Who the most obtuse IT staff member is and when they're on shift. Someone that can possibly be socially engineered into giving us a temporary password, thinking we're the actual staff member, so we can get into someone's account.

We can ask Other K for the name and possibly even the username of someone high-ranking in the labs and what password recovery options the employees are provided. South can possibly sit near said lab staff member in the cafeteria to get a voice sample - since she's apparently very good at impressions. Someone manipulative can also possibly socially engineer answers to the recovery password options from the lab staff member. Name of first pet and so on.

That "employee" aka South can then potentially make a call and try to convince the IT staff to reset a password. We'd need access to one of the hard wired computers in another deck, and a phone, to call, bamboozle, reset it, and login but we have people capable of infiltration. If she's willing to assist.

If the nanochain array is in the labs, a high ranking lab staff member may have access to schematics, operational instructions, how to repair it, what the power supply is hooked up to, etc.

Also with the dead drop of electronics Stacia made I may be able to jury rig a usb connection to download it to someone's comm so it can be sent to someone that can make sense of it, but no promises. The best we might be able to do is take pictures of the screen.

[hallelujahjunction]

[A blessing from the pathfinder themself! Dan feels weirdly blessed, like when a wild fawn comes up to you in the woods or when the bottom of a vending machine already has a free bag of chips for you.]

IT, huh? [That's one of the areas of staff Dan hasn't tried to ingratiate himself into, largely because he understands so little about technology that any juicy secrets would fly right over his head, lost forever to the ether.] First pet and mother's maiden name, street you grew up on, that's all easy. I can talk anyone into playing the Stripper Name Game with me.

['Dan Sagittarius is actually my stripper name' is a pretty good way to yank a conversation where he wants to take it.

He addresses the group more generally.]

Everyone getting this? Looks like we're evolving this all the way from a bad decision I'm going to get drunk to make to a bona fide plan.

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[prairietroubador]

Seems like everyone else has got all the basics covered, so I suppose I'll have to settle for wonderin' what crawled up his ass and died.

[hallelujahjunction]

I can try and find that out literally.

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[greyerrant]

How to get access to our weapons in times other than when Jorgmund issues them. [ Loken wants his precious chainsaw sword back. ]

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[runes_brand]

What he said.

[Brand just wants to be armed with actual weapons instead of shit he's scrounged up or slapped together.]

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[pain_train]

i get this is an extremely dumb question but who the fuck is planker

[hallelujahjunction]

[after listening to his communicator read the text out loud to him:] The gym teacher who yells a lot and makes us to do wind sprints until we puke.

[He's glib at first, because he's had some harsh mornings with Planker, but he gets serious.]

I do a lot of nosing around the staff here and seeing what they know and if it helps us. Most of the staff I got access to that way don't know jack shit, just line cooks and nav techs and the like. Planker's one of the folks we got regular access to who has clearance to more information than I can find chumming with the folks in the mail room, and he seems like a relatively straightforward type.

[As opposed to one of the staff members who might try and pull Dan's strings right back. Dan suspects that Planker's sadism is his most central and transparent motivation - good. Simple is easier to manipulate.]

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[takenalive]

What his access is based on, partially. Biometrics, memorized codes, individual implants and clumsier external things like keycards.