Microsoft Wanderings - Virtual City Scape

Methuselah Posts : 8745 Join date : 2010-09-23

She sat at her terminal, carefully traversing the underside of the internet. The code side. Heading for the Microsoft servers, where she'd left a few doors. Hoping they were there.

First goal: Get in.

Admin Posts : 20841 Join date : 2010-03-19

The first thing she noticed?

It was taking a God damned long-ass time to get in.

Methuselah Posts : 8745 Join date : 2010-09-23

Okay, now there was a problem. So she pushed a little harder.

Admin Posts : 20841 Join date : 2010-03-19

She could tell rather quickly...

She was going in circles. Or maybe a maze. It seemed a little like that. Like a maze.

Methuselah Posts : 8745 Join date : 2010-09-23

Mazes had routes to get through. She could do this. So she started to see if the maze was stable.

Admin Posts : 20841 Join date : 2010-03-19

The maze was more than stable. Which meant that, while there was a route to get through -- she would run into a wall. And we mean a wall. None of the tricks in her tradebook were getting her through the walls. But she could continue to move forward, if she wanted -- it was a matter of just going in the direction where someone obviously wanted you to go.

Methuselah Posts : 8745 Join date : 2010-09-23

She backed out, then set up a trail marker. A thread of code that would yank her out if she needed it to. Then she headed back into the maze. And followed it where it went.

Admin Posts : 20841 Join date : 2010-03-19

Hours. She was going to be there for hours trying to get into this maze. And forward she went. The more she went forward, the more it seemed like she was being... herded.

Methuselah Posts : 8745 Join date : 2010-09-23

Herded wasn't entirely bad. She just kept going, hoping that at some point she'd figure out what was here.

Admin Posts : 20841 Join date : 2010-03-19

Before long, a picture began to form on her screen.

Hello, Wire.

Methuselah Posts : 8745 Join date : 2010-09-23

Greetings.
To whom do I speak?

Admin Posts : 20841 Join date : 2010-03-19

Angel.
Why are you sneaking
around at my back
door?

Methuselah Posts : 8745 Join date : 2010-09-23

I could not find the front.
And the back door is always more fun.

Admin Posts : 20841 Join date : 2010-03-19

More fun for whom,
Wire? You should be
warned that I have sent
out my dogs to find you.

Methuselah Posts : 8745 Join date : 2010-09-23

More fun for everyone.
What dogs do you send?

Admin Posts : 20841 Join date : 2010-03-19

Bloodhounds.

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