[Adm_BlackCat]

Hey all, good news and bad news.
Good news, LAINSY provided Joseph Dillinger's email
joe.dillingerSPLATfailtechnologies.com

Bad news, Joseph did not respond well to my bad cop routine

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to joe.dillinger LAINSY reports Mr. Barron as AWOL and the most likely suspect is you. So tell me Mr. Dillinger, what do you have to gain by removing Barron from the picture? Or did you simply need his ID to access restricted areas? Come clean now Joe before this gets out of hand. If you cooperate in this investigation we can work out a deal. Tell me everything you know about Barron's disappearance and this investigation will not go past me and you will get off easily. ------------------------------------------------------------------- REPLY to me Excuse me? I don't think we know each other. I do not answer anything from people so rude that they start asking something they haven't even introduced who they are. Whatever your objective or who you are, you simply can't do this. Sorry, I won't be answering any more emails from you.

Oh well, hopefully someone else will have better luck...

[punxtr]

Um, who displeased our contact?

[godder]

Sorry guys. Been super busy lately. I'll catch up and be more available this week.

[Adm_BlackCat]

posse wrote:

Aha! LAINSY retrieved some of the recent logs of James Barron: Quote: RESPONSE: Two log entries found for the past 30 days with his name. Log entry number: 00000591F0, dated: February 22, 2012, Log Author: James Barron and Joseph Dillinger, Log class: Manual Entry Log entry number: 0000058EE3, dated: February 15, 2012, Log Author: James Barron and Joseph Dillinger, Log class: Manual Entry

Here's the other entry from LAINSY"

Log entry 0000058EE3

Date of entry: February 15, 2012

Author: James Barron and Joseph Dillinger
Summary: Protein Absorption Improvement
Full Entry: Current sample of the nano-machine solution has improved. There has been an increase in probability of successful protein and nano-machine bonding to allow absorption of the nano-machines in the msucular tissue. Yesterday's test was unsuccessful, however we have seen indications of nano-machine absorption. On an interesting note, it seems the msucular tissue is still able to distinguish the nano-machines apart from the actual proteins. If we could find a way to work around this, maybe bond the protein and nano-machine deeper then we should be able to force the muscles into absorbing the nano-machines along with the proteins. Either that, or the muscles will also start rejecting the proteins bonded with the nano-machines.

[punxtr]

I've been visiting family for the past week, and was unable to fill out any of the forms. I hope to catch up by tomorrow.

[duke9509]

Yes! Seems my ploy worked! It sounds like I've gotten on Althea's good side. She sent a reply and said she'll be getting back in touch with me with more to do.

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Hah! Interesting idea! Actually, we plan on moving into further applications of our research once we complete it's current state. And yes, it is quite possible for such applications, which would really be great! Imagine giving people the second chance to live their life to the fullest after being paralized... Simply amazing. Right now, I'm out of the office but I'll make you do some proof-reading once I get back by monday. Or if anything comes up, I'll tell you. With such cerative mind, I'm not surprised you got a referal from the Department Head himself.

If you're curious, my idea was to use the nanites to enhance electrical stimuli from the brain and alleviate paralysis.

[duke9509]

Ah, the problem was, I had used a lowercase l the first time, and so Firefox, not thinking of case-sensitivity, saw me type the "same" URL, and sent me there instead. I went around it by typing an additional / at the end.

Nuts. I see nothing that gives a sure-fire idea of how to get to L2. However, the presence of a welcome message suggests to me that, perhaps, we will eventually be given L2 access simply by completing more tasks as they are assigned; like perhaps L1 is simply a buffer for new employees and that L2 is the "standard" basic access.

Only problem is: no one's been given any tasks...
I'll try to push it along by sending a reply to that last email: something along the lines of "Sounds great! How can I help?."

EDIT: Email sent. Although I made the message a bit more wordy to try and get myself pushed towards the "idea-spouting" part of the group, which I would assume would have the highest clearances.

[zeighy]

thanks! logged in ok for me.... I got 4 files, the buzzersandalerts.txt contact.txt oldwelcome.txt and readme.txt

EDIT: the URL is case sensitive... L2 and l2 are two different directories for it... which is why l2 leads to the placeholder, and L2 heads to the correct directory

[duke9509]

The login isn't my problem, that's what LastPass is for. It's:
Username: level2access
Password: rainandsun

I'm just trying to access the actual directory.

[zeighy]

Well, I'm still here! But I can't really remember how the levels go... I could remember that Level 7 is like the highest available for the "non-top secret" stuff, while beyond that is like the top secret stuff... I could also remember that Level 1 is like the new employee level... Or not? I can't really remember, not even the login...

[duke9509]

I started thinking about how to go about the task prior to that one: Gain L2 access. My first thought was to go back to the L2 directory from E1 to try and get hints/refresh my memory on what gives an employee (or intern) L2 privileges. However, e1.failtechnologies.com/admin/l2 redirects to the current homepage placeholder, as does the same link minus the e1 subdirectory. Am I forgetting something about accessing the admin directories or is their episode preservation system screwed up? If the latter is the case, does anyone remember anything about L2 from E1? I know we had a largely different crew then, but some original players are still here (other than I).

[posse]

Aha! LAINSY retrieved some of the recent logs of James Barron:

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RESPONSE: Two log entries found for the past 30 days with his name. Log entry number: 00000591F0, dated: February 22, 2012, Log Author: James Barron and Joseph Dillinger, Log class: Manual Entry Log entry number: 0000058EE3, dated: February 15, 2012, Log Author: James Barron and Joseph Dillinger, Log class: Manual Entry

Note that one of our tasks was to acquire file LOG00000591F0.log? So I've got a request in to LAINSY to retrieve it. Hopefully there aren't any speedbumps in the process.

EDIT: Spoke too soon! LAINSY sent back:

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RESPONSE: Log entry 00000591F0 Date of entry: 02/22/2012 Author: James Barron and Joseph Dillinger Summary: Protein absorbtion test failed Full Entry: Muscular tissue is still rejecting absorbtion of the nano-machines. The live subject absorbs the protein culture we supposedly use to aid the absobtion of the nano-machines, however, muscular tissues still selectively rejects the nano-machines. Bonding modification is recommended to allow seemless absorbtion of both protein and nano-machine. SYSTEM NOTES: Attached autogen log verification failure. Re-upload of the original autogen log file required to lock-in this log entry.

I think that system note means that the log's been messed with somehow. I'm asking LAINSY what it means.

EDIT #2: Okay here's what the "system note" means:

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RESPONSE: That is a log entry system note. It means the log entry has been manually been entered into the system, however, the verification file which has been automatically generated by relevant systems that has been used is either corrupt or has been tampered with. Until a verified autogen log file has been attached properly, the entry will still be editable by the log author. However, if the log entry is an automated log, it is automatically locked in and verified as it is automatically filed and logged by my systems and me. Manual entries, however, are a little different. Dependant on the type of log being entered, an autogen log file may be required to lock-in a log entry, however, vertain log entries no not require the autogen log file as it may not be generated at all.

So it sounds like the log entry is still open for editing, or maybe something happened to James Barron (i.e. he disappeared) so that the entry couldn't be locked in, or whatever. I'm going to attempt to post this up on the External Agents and see if this might be useful. It seems too innocuous of a file, though, so I'm not getting my hopes up.

[zeighy]

I just turned in mine, and got a reply fast. Althea seems to be out of the office and has sent me the same explanation about the report, duke. Quite an interesting research! haha

[duke9509]

I just turned in my protein report. The task says that three people need to complete their first task (apparently the same report for everyone) by the end of today. Am I the third or has no one else done this yet other than Posse and I? The task is still marked as incomplete.

EDIT: After I got the confirmation that my report had been received I checked again and the task was completed. Also, Althea sent some info on what the research is aiming to accomplish:

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Now that you have some knowledge regarding how protein and muscles work together, let me introduce what our research is about. Our current research tackles the muscles' ability to absorb protein, specifically how it absorbs protein. You see, we have developed nano-machines, which are most organic in nature, which we have designed to be able to assist and manipulate muscles. However, the current issue is that muscles no not merely absorb them, which is why our research is currently focused in try to fool the muscles that these nano machines are proteins that it needs to absorb for repair or growth. The vision of the project is that these nano-machines are an alternative way we could speed up muscle repair and growth without any side-effects. Essentially, we're making "steriods on steriods" but without any side-effects from the use of steroids or any similar chemicals/drugs. The most basic use of this is to help out people suffering from dieseses that makes them loose muscular mass. The nano-machines are nearly of the same technology LAINSY runs on. Deep down at the molecular level, our cells in our body use small organic machines to perform operations. One of which is used to replicate DNA. Our nano-machines are inspired by these small machines, but the only thing stopping us is that our body seems to reject the nano-machines and thus we need to find a way to make our bodies absorb them. It is a very ambitious project and everyone in the team really wants to see it through. Personally, I feel like we're close to completing this project.

[posse]

I asked LAINSY for James Barron's bio:

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Employee summary: James Barron ID Number: 405022 James Barron was hired on November 2007 and has worked under Team Kappa of the Advanced Medical Solutions Research Department. He has then been moved to Team Epsilon in June 2010 to work in the major research project being worked on by the team. He is currently a Senior Researcher. System notes that James Barron has last been seen to work on February 23, 2012.

I'm asking LAINSY for James Barron's recent logs up until his disappearance, we'll see if LAINSY comes up with anything.