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- 12:00 · 13:00 · 14:00 · 15:00 · 16:00 · 17:00 · 18:00 "Good afternoon, Fortress Accident on Saint-Brune, this is the East-Insulindian Repeater Station
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- 19:00 · 20:00 · 21:00 · 22:00 · 23:00 "Good evening, Fortress Accident on Saint-Brune, this is the East-Insulindian Repeater Station 1
- 07:00 · 08:00 · 09:00 · 10:00 · 11:00 "Good morning, Fortress Accident on Saint-Brune, this is the East-Insulindian Repeater Station 1
- 00:00 · 01:00 · 02:00 · 03:00 · 04:00 · 05:00 · 06:00 "Good evening, Fortress Accident on Saint-Brune, this is the East-Insulindian Repeater Station 1
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Saint-Brune -- that's the church; Rue de Saint-Ghislaine -- the Doomed Commercial Area.
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"Fortress Accident -- sounds familiar..."
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"The company on whose name the terminal you're currently using has been registered to."
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"One moment..." You hear her flip through a catalogue, before she reads out with studious care:
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"'Fortress Accident SCA produces revolutionary interactive call-in radio games' -- that's what the catalogue says."
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The static drowns her response. "Any other questions?" you hear her ask when the connection finally improves.
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"Good bye, Fortress Accident," she says as her voice disappears into a whirl of static.
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"Sleep well, Fortress Accident," she says as her voice disappears into a whirl of static.
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The old lady sighs, as a wave of static distorts her voice to a robotic sprawl. "If you are unsure, could you please take a look?"
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"Open the hatch on the compartment. Don't touch the wires, a current is running through it, but the core is safe. There's a filament inside -- I need to know what it's called."
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"After you've told me the filament's name and password you can access its contents."
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"Yes. First you have to end this call though, and then you have to call us back. Is there anything else I could do for you meanwhile?"
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The lieutenant whispers into your ear: "She repeats passwords. Programming people are all... paranoid."
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"Yvonne, my partner here tells me that you're here because radiocomputer guys are all paranoid."
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"They're merely cautious," says the old lady. "It's my job to protect their filaments as a password repeater at the East-Insulindian Station."
On an island on the River Esperance, a small woman, all skin and bones, sits in a room filled with audio equipment. Thousands of tiny lights are reflected back from her prescription lenses, like stars in the dark.
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"Now please tell me if there's anything else I can do for you, Fortress Accident."
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"Lonely?" For the first time you hear her chuckle through the rustle of static. "Why would it get lonely, I get to talk all day to people like you over a warm cup of tea."
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"I work as a repeater at the East-Insulindian Repeater Station. It's my job to know where you are, Fortress Accident."
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"As for me, well..." Some static. Then... "I am sitting in my cubicle surrounded by a wall of radios."
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"Yes, I am alive. I am 74 years old and my name is Yvonne. Now please repeat, is this the personal log?"
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It's the same old woman you spoke with through the radiocomputer in the Doomed Commercial Area.
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Fortress Accident, just like in the Doomed Commercial Area... There must be a connection.
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This is a human interface -- a retired person sitting behind a switchboard somewhere.
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"Good evening, Fortress Accident on Saint-Brune, this is the East-Insulindian Repeater Station 1. Please repeat, is this the personal log?"
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"Good afternoon, Fortress Accident on Saint-Brune, this is the East-Insulindian Repeater Station 1. Please repeat, is this the personal log?"
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A bar of fabric right above the keyboard starts producing a soft hum. The sound of static seeps through the machine's planar magnetic driver.
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Oh no... it was already glowing and now it's also making a sound? It's probably some alien Seolite technology...
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The static gets louder, slowly filling up the abandoned hall. Until a voice speaks out, crackling and old, cutting into the air...
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