rakuen | [Round 2, Day 5] If you seek you shall find

Characters: Grenn, anyone else
Format: Prose preferred, action possible
This log is: open
Location: All over campus, variously close to the towers
Summary: Grenn is checking out all the towers (that she can reach), come with if you feel like it!

Grenn was aware there would probably be nothing to find when she'd wandered around to all the towers, but it was worth a try. There would probably be nothing visible, but then, when she'd hacked the system, there had been nothing visible there either, and see how that turned out.

Turning from the tower that stood by the entrance where the tram came in, Grenn wandered towards the first on her list; the one at the courtyard. She'd come to the others in time. Grenn grimaced as she scuffed her foot, having accidentally dragged it, and as pain shot up from the over-tuned/faulty connected nerves.

She hoped she someday would get used to the pain the prostethics caused, or at least be fully able to push it down to a subconcious level while she wore them.

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"Eh?" Looking up again, Grenn frowned and shook her head slowly. The only thing on her mind was, besides the pain from the prostethics, the wish of wanting to figure this out. This whole... thing.

"No... Not really? I'd just like to... well. Find something conclusive. It's... not as if anyone will believe the other thing..." The last was muttered as Grenn wasn't sure she wanted to go through yet another 'are you really all right, how can this be a simulation?' with another person.

Gino had been enough.

"You and me both, but they seem to be hiding those facts well." Kallen would give anything at this point to find something 'conclusive' but there really was nothing. Damn this place, seriously.

With a sigh, Grenn walked up to Kallen, frowning. Should she? Well... One more person more-or-less not believeing her would probably be fine. She could handle that.

"Well." Grenn shrugged and fingered the compass. "You just have to know where to look, really... I tried hacking the system a bit ago. Remember the solour-swap?" Grenn felt her face heat, because that was embarrassing.

She'd tried, and not even managed to do anything useful. Of course, the punishment had been light, too.

Kallen caught sight of the frown. Was it something she said... or didn't say in this case?

"That was you?" Kallen wasn't effected by it thankfully, but had wondered how the situation came out. That answered that question.

She'd started this by mentioning it, so now it was just to continue. Grenn stifled the urge to hide her face in her hands, that action just didn't feel the same as when she was sitting in a chair.

"Yeah. I tried to... Well, I had no idea what I'd find, but I... had the vauge idea of trying to disrupt the holographic tech, or the battle system, something." Grenn took a deep breath and looked Kallen straight in the face. "Instead the single computer screen of these... pathetically backwards computers kind of... folded out into many screens. I could touch them. Unfortunately, by that point, I had even less an idea of what I was doing, and the system found the intruder shortly after that and kicked me out..."

Which had been highly unpleasant.

"I see..." Hacking into anything would do much. Kallen maybe had the ability, but that wasn't her forte. Lloyd would probably be better off doing such a thing.

"It would never be that easy," she thought out loud. "I'm beginning to think there's no other way or that just they've outsmarted us."

"It could have been that easy," Grenn felt annoyance bubble up, and she shook her head, glaring towards the buildings.

"No one can hack anything unless they know the system... Which'll be hard to do if you risk penalties that they can lob down immediately at you..." Grenn sighed and rubbed her face, tired and annoyed.

Hacking would probably not be an easy way out here, even if she or someone else could do it again.

"But it wasn't. I have no doubts that they know all the tricks we would try to pull and have done everything in their power to do what they can against it. Whoever is running this place is not stupid. And while I'm not okay with being taken hostage again, right now we can't do anything. But I have no doubt they'll trip up somehow."

"I suppose," Grenn sighed again and shook her head. "But either they weren't alerted immediately when I went beyond the normal access, or they were alerted, and were just looking to see what I was going to try.. or what I could do, whatever."

Grenn wasn't sure which was 'best' to hope for... But it had been quite obvious when at least an internal alarm in the system had been tripped, even if someone was watching her the whole time. They didn't do anything before that alarm was tripped...

"Let me know if you find out anything," Kallen said, head motioning towards the towers. She had wasted enough time (although wasted wasn't the right word, she learned something here) and forgot she promise Kotarou she'd meet up with him. "I have to head back."

"Sure. Even if I do find anything, it'll probably just be annoying because it won't be obvious what it means..." Grenn shrugged and smiled briefly, giving Kallen a wave and wandered off towards the tower at the other side of the courtyard.

"But that may turn out to be something that can help us," Kallen said in encouragement before turning away. Man, Kotarou was going to be pissed that she's late. Well not pissed, just act more annoyed than usual.

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