Chapter 5: 5-1121JBL_Log

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complete_typing: true; login_log: true; visible_psw: false; visible_username: true; copy_forward: true; source_insight: false;
Forwarded for analysis to: 'Oliver Lee', 'Nathan Harrigan'

[] ioi_messenger
Password?
[]
Granted!

       Accessing SOURCE...
       Accessing SCARLET...
       Starting Monitor server daemon...
[ OK ] Access granted by SOURCE
[ OK ] Access granted by SCARLET
[ OK ] Started Monitor server daemon

       Accessing IOI network...
       Accessing CA...
       Identifying user...
       Authentication...
[ OK ] Access granted on IOI network
[ OK ] Access granted on CA
[ OK ] Candidate identified
[ OK ] Authentication complete!

       Starting ioi_messenger...
       Starting Autocorrect...
[ OK ] Started OpenMsr client
[ OK ] Started HostPTR
[ OK ] Started Director
[ OK ] Started Autocorrect

        username is now 'Johnson'
       Candidate language set to 'English'
       Candidate keyboard set to 'QWERTY'
       Candidate clock set to 'GMT-5'

[SOURCE] Good morning, Johnson! Please wait, SCARLET will explain your assignment shortly!

[SCARLET] Hello! I am SCARLET, an Artificial Intelligence built to provide you with information. Contrary to SOURCE, my role is not to assist but to inform (when I'm authorized to do so).

[SCARLET] The document you received in your mailbox is your today's assignment. You'll notice a hexadecimal number behind each paragraph. Just say my name with said number, and I'll print the linked content here.

[SCARLET] Your job is easy: you have a questionnaire to fill out. Each question can earn you 0, 1, 2, or 3 points and there are twenty-one of them. It's normally impossible to get 0, except if you willfully try to answer in bad faith (or cheat). 20 points are enough to pass. Therefore, the simple act of answering is sufficient to succeed! If you get less, your application will be terminated on the spot. The last, "is this document real?" is special. Giving an accurate statement here doubles your earnings. You had 20? It's now 40.

[SCARLET] So what is our objective in a test you cannot fail? There is a counter with your name. Only what you got beyond twenty will be accounted for, and you have to get a minimum amount to secure this job.

[SCARLET] You'll never know how much you got! Your document is by itself enough to answer everything and reap at most two points with each question. But the ones of your colleagues can give insights to help secure three points. Playing solo is a viable strategy to win the hard way, but cooperating is more efficient.

[SCARLET] Be careful: none of you have the same set of questions, for they are made to resonate with your professional background. Asking your partners about their answers is not cheating. It could even prove to be useful!

[SCARLET] One last thing. Each of these "solving sessions" concerns a reduced number of you at a time, to keep the discussion clearer. The people you'll be with are decided at random.

[SCARLET] That's it! Any question?

[Johnson] No.

[SCARLET] Wonderful!

[SOURCE] You can now connect to your salon.

[Johnson] connect:salon_t17

       You are in salon_t17

[Johnson] Hello?

[Johnson] cmd:whoisco

       Johnson is alone in salon_t17

       Johnson is 'absent', disconnection in 10 minutes!
       Johnson is 'absent', disconnection in 09 minutes!
       Johnson is 'absent', disconnection in 08 minutes!

        joined salon_t17
        username is now 'Samuel'

[Samuel] Hello! Anyone here?

[Johnson] I am. Hello.

[Samuel] It's only the two of us?

[Johnson] For now. Maybe.

[Samuel] We are supposed to wait for the others?

[Johnson] I don't know.

[Samuel] Well... okay. You also had to undergo the explanation from Scarlet?

[Johnson] Yes.

[Samuel] Rather complicated, their recruitment process!

[Johnson] Many corporations do this kind of shit to test their candidates' resilience. That's why they won't give us our score, to keep the pressure on.

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        username is now 'Rose'

[Samuel] Nasty!

[Johnson] Yeah.

[Rose] What did you say?

[Samuel] Oh, hello! We were talking about the rules given by Scarlet. How it is some nasty trick for us.

[Rose] It's just the two of you?

[Samuel] Yes! Maybe somebody else will come, but we don't know yet.

[Rose] Alright, let's wait. Nasty trick, huh?

[Johnson] Probably. I was hired by Oracle-Cohaagen, some years ago. They gave my group a complicated trial not unlike this one, with obscure rules and strange restrictions, to push us to the verge and see if we break.

[Rose] I survived for more than a decade as a cop in New York City. Let them try!

[Samuel] That's the spirit!

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        username is now 'Heather'

[SOURCE] Your team is now complete. You can begin when you want!

[Heather] Hi vryone!

[Samuel] Hello, Heather. How are you?

[Heather] Fine, thx! Thats soo nicee of yu to ask!

[Rose] Can we start?

[Samuel] Are you in a hurry?

[Rose] I have to work right after so yes, actually I do.

[Samuel] That's a shame! It could be helpful to know each other better!

[Rose] If you say so. Do it when our job is done.

[Samuel] Okay, girl... what should we do now?

[Johnson] I'll open my document, that's a good starting point.

[Heather] wich one?

[Rose] The doc you got by mail this morning, from Source.

[Samuel] Good for me.

[Heather] Oh, rigt. Open.

[Johnson] So? What do you see? Let's check if we have at least something in common.

[Samuel] Some balance sheet for a private school in North Carolina.

[Rose] A written report from a security guard.

[Heather] Some essay by a middlescool students.

[Johnson] The leaflet of a school.

[Samuel] What's its name?

[Johnson] J. D. Rockefeller Academy.

[Samuel] Yeah, it's the same!

[Rose] My security guard works there.

[Johnson] And I'm sure Heather's student is here too!

[Heather] Probaby

[Johnson] Different questions for each of us, and the answers lie in every one of these docs. We read everything and speak. No big deal.

[Samuel] Understood!

You are reading story On the edge of a Blue Line at novel35.com

       Rose is 'absent', disconnection in 10 minutes!
       Heather is 'absent', disconnection in 10 minutes!
       Johnson is 'absent', disconnection in 10 minutes!
       Samuel is 'absent', disconnection in 10 minutes!
       Rose is 'absent', disconnection in 09 minutes!

[Rose] Heather, what is the subject of your essay?

[Heather] An helicopter fight course.

[Rose] Fight course?

[Heather] I meean fLight

[Rose] Shit! Use words we can understand!

[Heather] Sorry

[Rose] A helicopter flight course? Damn school for wealthy brats!

[Samuel] What is your report's subject, Rose?

[Rose] Unapproved usage of a weapon on campus.

[Samuel] Really?

[Rose] It is phrased in such a way that it seems like a minor incident. A student used her training gun after class was over.

[Samuel] They teach shooting in private schools?

[Heather] Wat kind of gun?

[Rose] Why? We like big guns, girl?

[Heather] Yas, a loooot!

[Rose] Seems like you have qualities, after all.

[Rose] NG-XASR. Never heard of it. Maybe it's some fancy name for a sporting rifle.

[Johnson] Wait, someone used an NG-XASR in a SCHOOL? Holy shit, they are serious? What the fuck!

[Samuel] I assume you know what it is.

[Johnson] Yes, I do. It's the Northrop Grumman eXperimental Anti-satellite Sniper Rifle. Oracle-Cohaagen made its embedded electronic. Developed specifically to shoot down orbital fighters. Half-a-million price tag.

[Rose] What the hell?

[Samuel] My Lord!

[Heather] Lol! I wanna go in that scchool, pleease!

[Samuel] At least it clears up why my balance sheet shows kerosene and ammunition expenses. They throw away a lot of cash, but I do not see any normal income a school should have. There is one entry, "BL-IO", which pays for absolutely everything.

[Johnson] My leaflet is the most mundane I ever read. Their curriculum is heavily oriented in sports, notably gymnastics, and engineering.

[Johnson] Oh! It's a boarding school! Exactly 300 kids. They admit to being somewhat military-related on the last page.

[Rose] In North Carolina? They have Oak Ridge Military Academy there, no? Do you think they give helicopter flight courses and anti-satellite rifle training too?

[Johnson] You want to call?

[Rose] No, it's rhetorical. We both know the answer.

[Heather] How many boy they have?

[Rose] Another quality for Heather?

[Heather] Yes, actuly no! I do not ask dor that, silly!

[Johnson] Precisely 150. It's said on the first page: "As its long-standing tradition dictates, J. D. Rockefeller Academy always accommodates an exact same number of boys and girls". 300 total? 150 each.

[Heather] Thx!

[Johnson] Funny.

[Rose] What?

[Johnson] No address, phone number, or email.

[Samuel] Let me guess, "For further instruction on how to apply, please contact Human Resources"?

[Johnson] Close, "You can request an application form from your Blue Line officer".

[Samuel] That's because it's a corporate academy. A company-sponsored school for employees' children.

[Rose] Good catch.

[Johnson] Pretty hardcore, their classes!

[Samuel] Thankfully my kids went in far less brutal ones.

[Rose] Heather, can you ask Scarlet to print a paragraph where a weapon is mentioned in your essay?

[SCARLET] Paragraph 2. "I'm not sorry for that slut! And no, I won't be for my language either! I'm sure he is a bottom for his entire dorm! Why should I care that he can drive anything? I can shoot a mosquito at 1700 meters with a G32! You don't want any more trouble between the two of us? Send him far away from me!"

[Rose] I'm sorry to tell you, Heather, but it's not an essay. It's more of an apology letter, of the kind that can get you instantly expelled.

[Heather] Its 20 parragraph long whit lots of tecknical terms.

[Rose] Give me another one.

[SCARLET] Paragraph 18. "I do not recommend electromagnetic weaponry, especially if the target travels on a civilian plane. A railgun is far too easy to deflect with modern countermeasures. A better approach should stay straightforward: an elevated position, preferably mobile, with an intelligent rifle. Two armor-piercing bullets. One for the nose to create a distraction, the other for the kill. Tricky but doable by any marksman trained to make a precision shot from a helicopter. The sole occasion will be on takeoff since airline pilots have a well-known tendency to never activate their ABCM manually."

[Johnson] What the hell? Whose children are there?

[Samuel] It's downright creepy.

[Heather] Sooo cool

[Heather] and my questioannare is complete!

[Rose] Mine too. Our first assignment wasn't so hard.

[Samuel] Good for us.

[Johnson] Do you think our documents were real or not?

[Samuel] Probably not real.

[Rose] Not real.

[Heather] Reaal

[Johnson] Not real.

[Samuel] I hope we are right.

[Rose] Goodbye.

       Rose left salon_t17

[Samuel] Sorry, I have to go. Nice day, Johnson!

[Johnson] You too.

       Samuel left salon_t17

[Heather] Why you say your leeflet its not reeel?

[Johnson] A stupid reason, most certainly wrong: it's too "fake". If my doc is correct, the other are false, and I don't think so.

[Heather] Rlly?

[Johnson] They are all real except mine.

[Heather] Soo I'm right? Cooool! See ya, Johnny!

       Heather left salon_t17

[Johnson] :q!

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