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[missphinx]

How can we contact Kamal? Email !flea instructions to transmit an attached wav to durga? Ask Kamal/Durga to record a message for Yasmine?

Here's my response to Melissa:

[thunderclap8]

yeah i figure its leading us to dana because obviously as non-characters we can't really interact with the server all this is happening on. Dana, on the other hand, can do some modification or even implement the Cole Protocol for us if necessary (Ax + Server = not much Melissa, SP, or the flea could do about it). Kamal could factor in there as [SPEC] the one who has to 'talk down' a hybrid SP/flea after the flea !attaches itself to her.[/SPEC]

Needless to say, I'm getting really interested in seeing how this all works out.

[weephun]

[vector]

[krystyn]

Ah, nice connection, Vector!

weephun, I am thinking we need to use the flea to transmit to Durga, somehow. I know, that seems backwards, but that appears to be the ONLY WAY for us to communicate to the future. It's how we got her the Herzog files - what can we possibly transmit to her that will get us into contact with Kamal? What would be neat, clean, concise, non-alarming?

How can we use Dana to this end? She's obviously being prodded into action. Perhaps she can find a way to circumvent the flea and transmit stuff herself?

Dana has physical presence of the webserver on her side, and the SP's affection. She has also, through us, gained Melissa's trust, to a certain degree. So maybe she can figure out a way to transmit and get us Kamal to provide proof ...?

This all seems so pie-in-the-sky, I know, but I keep getting thrown back to ideas along the lines of Loki's nightmare from Cloudmakers ... Maybe something like this?

[weephun]

I continue to think that if Melissa didn't have rogue processes running around in her system and wasn't infected with a virus, we wouldn't need anyone else to transmit to Durga. I think Melissa would do it herself. She seems to be concerned that Durga might be infected with the virus also, maybe if she was running at full capacity, she might be able to help Durga remove the virus.

Alternately, Durga seems to be starting to have a connection to the Sleeping Princess. If the PF is removed, maybe the SP could continue transmitting.

I've never liked the PF anyway.

[CoffeeJedi]

[weephun]

Email ready to go:

[Phaedra]

[weephun]

[krystyn]

Maybe these emails are the answer. But all we have to offer as proof of the SP's true self is what we've been able to glean. Melissa can't even see the SP, is not able to trust Durga because Durga might be infected, which keeps bringing me back to Kamal. He is human, and yes, fallable, but he cannot be infected by a Covenant's computer virus, and would be able to do some sort of Turing-test-in-reverse on the SP. As suspicious and wary as Melissa is, why should she believe us that the SP is not a threat? "Well, uh, she's cute! And she likes red balloons and cake! And she tells us stories! And it sounds like she's you, except at age 6!" If I were Melissa, I'd tell us to stop being soft humans, and get her some real proof.

If we can't get Kamal, then perhaps we need to provide a compendium of all the stuff we know about the SP, since Miss M. can't see it for herself, and that might be enough. It seems weak, though. She does like Ye Olde Initiative. Why else have we been saluting at phones and singing Payphone Karaoke and making images all these weeks? Was that just busywork? We've got to coordinate somehow. Yah?

[vidstudent]

I received one of the e-mails, too, my pictures being the two wedding cakes (the first was ganked from a Google search - it's the "Esther" style - and the second involved GIMP and a mouse).

We need to explain to Melissa what the Pious Flea is, and in such a way that Melissa cannot deny it. This means I need help:


1. I need to know what pages contain logs of the Flea's attempts to camouflage itself as the SPDR. Bruce's page is nice for telling me what happened, but I need to be able to link Melissa to the files so she can see for herself. Consider it explaining the solve, if you will. With this info, I can make her face the fact that her SPDR version number is likely illegal (how does a program made in the future update itself in the past? Answer: It *doesn't*).
2. Is there anywhere the Flea is currently looking that the Princess is not? I'm going to tell Melissa that the Princess is actually a symptom of rampancy (and point her to the appropriate Jersey .wav files), but I'd still rather her go after the Flea without finding the Princess first.</li>
3. I need operation code that would revert a process to an earlier version of that process. ...yeah, like it'd be that easy, but still....

If I can get that, I can send an e-mail with that information, and we can...maybe...hit endgame?

[SuperJerms]

What if Mel is right, and Yasmine has gone rampant? You guys been noticing her verbage as of late?

[vidstudent]

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