<> <> * Amadeus actually put his datapad away and is at the table as well, watching Tia, er... do whatever it is she does to toasters. * Kyle whistles and watches Tia work. * Hestia tosses a screwdriver idly in one hand while she stares at the toaster. "Does someone have an idea for tracking this signal, before I do something potentially dangerous to figure it out?" * Zeke is staring at the screen. He will be playing the part of the video geek this session. Is another zoom-and-enhance in store? Who knows! "It should be theoretically possible... there is an... uh, sympathetic resonance. Yes." (...did Zeke really say 'uh'?) * Amadeus looks at Zeke strangely, then turns to Tia. "I'm no tech person, but if we traced the angels it projected at, we should figure out roughly where it was going." (Yeah, that's why he got a strange look.) (he's about to get another, hence my asking) (He did, in fact, say uh.) * Hestia gives Zeke a strange look too. She actually misses and then drops the screwdriver in the process, it's such a strange look. Bending down to pick it up, she turns to Amadeus, slowly. "Let's do that, then. I'll try tracking down BenChevron or whatever his name was." Right, I'll do my best. (Sorry, catch me up?) <> <> Basically 'triangulate' the position, right? (Will be slow for a little bit. Dinner just arrived.) * Hestia continues checking what's available. Anything that would indicate why he'd be working with/for any of the people who are suspected buyers at those phones? * Tomas enters the room from the galley with a platter full of assorted sliced breads. He looks over toward the dismantled toaster and his shoulders slump. "I thought -- hrmph." * Tomas heads back into the galley. * Amadeus sits at the table, flicking his eyes in that headputer way. He must be doing lots of calculations in there. No, it's not a real toaster. * Kyle pulls out his datapad and starts doing some searchings of his own. < haracter from Max Headroom.>> * Lexi floats over to the bar and has a martini mix itself behind her while she looks over to the rest of the crew. "Do you think maybe... tracking down that Mr. Jackson guy would be a good idea? I mean he went along with the Black Orchid too. I can't imagine it's an accident. So unless Bidder D really wants to kill off that Jackson guy, he may know something." You got a point. He's always been there for those trips. Let me see what I can find. * Hestia looks up from her data pad with a raised eyebrow. "Two for two." Who's an expert in old twentieth century pop culture? I know something about it, but... my sister's a real early to mid 20th century buff. Can you call her? It might be important. Got it! <> * Lexi floats her drink over to her. "Why twentieth century history? That's what I want to know. Seems like a really boring thing to hide information in." * Amadeus blinks, then realizes other people were talking. "Er, sorry if I interrupted." He straightens his glasses. "The signal from this thing-" he points at the toaster- "is likely to Ganymede." That's why. It's also recent enough that there's tons of documentation on what's true. If you go too much further back, what's true and what's not starts to blur because there wasn't a lot of media attention. Ganymede? Seriously? Also, this Jackson guy works for your dad. (What is even on Ganymede? Miners?) * Kyle starts dialing his phone in to his sister. "So what do you want to know, Hestia?" * Hestia looks back at her pad for a moment, then to Kyle. "The names of every major character on 'Max Headroom'." * Lexi perks up. "He does? Hm..." <> (Er. Towns, not cities... sigh.) * Tomas returns from the galley empty-handed and sits at the table, occassionally glancing mournfully at the toaster. Max Headroom? What's that? <> * Hestia cradles the phone on her shoulder, still poking at the pad. "Hi there. What do you know about television in the late 1900s?" (Hey, sis, here's this random woman. She probably won't kill you. Later!) (That sounds good.) (I didn't know my sister picked up. XD) * Hestia continues talking into the phone! But does so in poses because she's not hiding it at all. "Max Headroom. Ever heard of it? Barest of information about it on the TVNet. I need a list of the major characters." ...great. That was actually a big help. Thanks again... let me put your brother on. * Hestia then holds out the phone to Kyle and starts typing a little faster than before. * Hestia looks at Amadeus while she does so. "Ganymede. So why would they be on Ganymede?" * Kyle picks up and jabbers to his sister a 'bit more, about work, about family, and about Hestia's strange taste in TV shows. No idea. But that's where this was broadcasting to, at least when you found it. * Kyle hangs up. "So what's that about?" * Hestia sets down her pad and leans back in her chair. "They're all there. Somewhere. Every character on that show, someone's using as an alias somewhere on Mars." ... So it's very likely they're all working together. What are these people doing with their aliases? Hell if I know. They're fake names for a reason. * Tomas gogs, "But you found the names somewhere, otherwise you wouldn't know these names were being used." (...what?) (You found names of these characters being used as aliases. Are they posting recipes on the Red Food Network TVNet site?) (also why am i the only one talking. again. :( ) (What, I'm here. >_<) (I'm people :( ) (Tomas' point is pretty good, I'm confused why you didn't get any more information.) (I was getting more info from the GM before I replied?) They're from a phone book. The numbers are going to be disposable cells just like the first guy's, though it looks like one of them matches yet another bidder. (Er, no.) Another of the winning bidders? (The number matches the "woman's number" in the phone logs for the guy who was watching you on behalf of Bidder B) (That's not what you said!) (God, my head hurts. Like... we seem to be doing a lot of 'Aha! More info!' but a not lot of 'Okay! let us go to a place and do something with said info' at this point.) (Yeah, this... links up Bidder B and D, kinda, through the hacker, theoretically.) (This is hard!) <> <> * Lexi finishes her drink and shrugs. "So where to now, folks?" (Then let's go to Ganymede at this point? I dunno, I don't think I can take much more long silences while we puzzle out ARG clues.) Ganymede sounds like our most promising real clue right now. * Lexi nods and floats to her feet. "Alright then." Any research to conclude before we break comms? * Zeke nods as well, saying, "The hacking changes are still not useful... all the changed information... is numbers of samples. Renormed." Is it possible to localize the position further on Ganymede, Amadeus? I think so. If we use the resonance we have here, we should be able to chase the signal all the way down to the receiving end. * Kyle nods. "Makes sense." <> (Sure!) (Seems so.) <>