Chapter 19 – Special Agent N00bcake (Part III)
“I’m more interested in if people use it for less-than-legitimate purposes.” Their trek took them into a workshop made of iron girders, wood floors, with a furnace and a circular dais. He carefully stayed back as Shodan charged in recklessly and flattened all opposition that rose to attack her. She seemed to carom off the [...]
Chapter 19 – Special Agent N00bcake (Part II)
Shodan didn’t appear to mind, as he waited to find out what would happen next, another message popped up: “You’ve been asking about Bitcoin on the forums. I don’t know how much you’ve googled on the subject, but I think that I can answer most of your questions directly if you don’t want to wade [...]
Chapter 19 – Special Agent N00bcake (Part I)
Special Agent Ellis Warren found himself clearly out of his depth. Years of training as a field operative, extensive hand-to-hand experience, and seminars in profiling aggressors didn’t give him any edge against the pixelated fox-like creature on his computer. He’d spent the better part of the day trying to get into a discussion with the [...]
Chapter 18 – No Bothans Were Harmed During This Operation (Part II)
“Actually, no,” Elaine said. “Neither of these Universities shows a great amount of anomalies. What is anomalous here is that ASU generally receives a lot more graduate students from out of state than they do from their own undergraduate population. In this case, the opposite is true. Something Dr. Fedora said earlier today got me [...]
Chapter 18 – No Bothans Were Harmed During This Operation (Part I)
Zane enthroned himself in his ergonomic computer chair in the living room as he, Elaine, Frog, Roger, and Hadaly all held an audience by the flickering light of the numerous monitors. Each one currently displayed scenes from different video games as they cycled through downloading all the various media feeds that Zane consumed during a [...]
Chapter 17 – It’s All About the Quasars, Baby (Part III)
She waited for the girls to seat themselves before gradually descending back into her own. The sway-backed leather seat seemed to swallow her whole. “Today I received the most astounding surprise,” Fedora said. One of her spider hands scrabbled for her spectacles—a strange pair of glasses that looked entirely out of place on her thin [...]