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 Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 4:10 pm
  
"It's alright I get it. You have a crush on the boss and worried. Totally fine. Alex had a crush on him to for a while but he was always to distant and secretive. It didn't work out." His tone made it hard to tell if he was teasing her or not but one would be safe to assume that he was doing exactly that. He didn't explain why they were worried what Adrian would be like when he woke up but it didn't have to do with fear that Sybil had effect Adrian. They were all worried about him. The stress of Zeta Protocol, his father's death, the failed attack, and his near death experience would weight to heavily on Adrian and they were worried what damage it would cause. Will was glad to talk about the plan again. "Well we need to gather more explosive materials. The goal was to plant the bombs in the building's lowest floor and blow it while we all struck from outside. First we have to retake the hangar. Johnathon has been put in charge of gathering allies and weapons for the resistance. "
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 9:40 pm
Amelia Cross  “He wishes.” Amelia said with a bit of a snort. She actually doubt very much that he did, but she enjoyed the joke as it relived some of the tension in the room. “Does the Hanger have enough explosives for your bomb? We could hit up the ammunition factory just outside of the city. I think we could get in and out without being noticed if we are careful, but as soon as Sybil notices the material is missing it might have a pretty good idea of the plan.” She paused for a moment, trying to figure out how to word her next question without sounding too sceptical. “How are you going to take the Hanger back?” She decided just to ask the question without including her thoughts on the impossibility of the situation. Of course it was just a guess, but she imagined Sybil had the area pretty well locked down. Did it know it was empty? Either way she had a hard time imagining a situation that didn't involved a whole lot of people dying to get the base back.
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Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 10:32 pm
"The Hangar had a great deal of explosives but we need to take it back to get our tanks and jets back. Explosives we can find elsewhere, the vehicles, well we can only get those from the hangar." Will explained as he pulled his sawed-off shotgun from the table by the door and set it on the table in front of the couch. Then will plopped down on the couch in a very casual manner. "Well Johnathon is working on coordinating an attack with any other safe houses we can contact. The goal is to synchronize one strike and hit the Hanger from every entrance. One team takes the warehouse and the other takes the vehicle entrance. We figure Sybil will have machines all over it which is why we are hoping to build up ammunition. " As he explained he unloaded the sawed-off and began taking it apart for cleaning. everyone hear had two weapons they liked to use. Adrian had been fond of pistols and closer quarter weapons like a baton or machete. Will liked shotguns and hatchets. His hatchet was in his room under his cot. "Once we have the Hangar we will head immediately for the tower because we figured if we give Sybil too much time it may up it's security. So we will need the bombs ready before moving on the Hangar."
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:20 pm
Amelia Cross Amelia listened carefully as Will explained the plan to her, following him to the couch and watching with curiosity as he began to clean it. She honestly didn't like the plan. Taking back the Hanger that way sounded like a good way to get a whole lot of people dead, though she honestly didn't have a better idea. “I guess it would be better to try and take the explosives sooner than later. Sybil will figure out it is missing pretty quickly, so you won't really gain the element of surprise by waiting the last minute to take it. Doing it earlier would give more time for a plan B if there is a bad batch or something goes wrong while building them. Were you going to use an EMP while attack the Hanger?” Amelia wasn't exactly sure where her place was with the resistance, or how they felt about her, but Will seemed to be fairly open with her about the plan so she had decided to share her suggestions. The worst he could say was no right? “Depending on how much time you have, maybe you could teach me how to shoot a gun? Or not get my a** totally handed to me?” Amelia had never planned on being on this side of the resistance. She had always assumed she would be an insider until they day they took Sybil down, but if things were going to continue maybe she should learn some combat skills.
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Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:10 pm
"We thought about using the EMP that we stashed in the Hanagr for the tower strike but ultimately dropped the idea. We don't have the supplies or experts we would need to build a remote detonator and even if we did, we would still have to find a way to connect the detonators signal to the EMP." Will finished cleaning each barrel of the shotgun before he said anything else. They had considered less hazardous idea but without the Hangar they really had limited supplies. They needed to send a lot of people into the Hangar at once. Sure, a lot would die if it was as guarded as they feared, but they would reclaim the Hangar. They would have the supplies that needed and they would be able to launch a final strike on Sybil. They did however have one other plan. "We considered creating a computer virus. Nothing big, just something that we could weaponize which would cause the machines guarding the hangar to frenzy. The hope was that they would be to focused fighting each other to fight us." After he explained that he moved on to what she had said last.
"Amelia we don't exactly have any place to train you. Teaching you how to shoot a gun requires actually shooting a gun and we are sorta giving away our position if we fire off practice shots all day. Plus out ammunition is limited, we can't waste what little bullets we have on training. " Will paused briefly as he began to reassemble the now cleaned shotgun. "It's really not that hard though, just point and squeeze the trigger."
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 6:24 pm
Amelia Cross “Why a remote detonator? I wouldn’t recommend having an ear piece in at the time, but it wouldn’t hurt a person. Whoever brings it to the tower might as well set it off. If Sybil tries the same trick, just start dismantling machines.” That still left the problem of the Hanger. Depending on how old the tanks and jets were, an EMP might destroy them and any other older equipment they were planning on using. Even if it didn’t, it would hamper the plan to attack the tower right after. She considered the virus idea. “A virus could work, but we would need to take whatever machines are there offline somehow, or at least the ones we want to infect. So long as they are live linked Sybil would be able to correct it pretty quickly. It does have limited resources, it can’t have all the machines linked at the same time or watch the entire city, but the Hanger and the Tower are the two biggest priorities. I’m not sure there would be a way to get Sybil to put those machines on auto. The ones in the city right now would be offline and I could remove Sybil's ability to link to them, but unless you have a big warehouse to store a bunch of deactivated machines until we have enough for an assault I doubt that would be very helpful.“ She sighed and flopped down on the couch next to him. “And were you not just complaining about a certain someone not being able to shoot? If you can't teach me to shoot, what about to fight?”
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Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:39 pm
"The remote detonator would be for taking back the Hangar. An EMP on the tower would be pointless. We took a few scans when we were in the building, Sybil would be able to reboot too quickly. If we detonate the EMP in the Hangar remotely we will be able to shut everything down long enough for us to get in and dismantle and of Sybil's machines. We can repair anything else effected by the EMP." Will explained. The EMP would be a one shot thing, when it was fired, it would not be able to fire again. "You're idea about the machines is solid but we do not have that warehouse. If we had the Hangar we would have the needed storage space but we don't. As far as training you goes though, we could try. I mean Adrian was the real hand-to-hand expert here. The rest of us are just really good shots and carry around weapons that can smash or chop stuff. No real method, just hit your target harder and faster than it hits you."
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:27 pm
Amelia Cross “Great, two idea's which only half work.” Amelia sighed. “I suppose it would be too much to ask for the Hanger to have a super secret back door the machines don't know about, or for there to be an abandoned warehouse Sybil doesn't check in on? Wouldn't setting off the EMP in the Hanger ruin the plan for assaulting the tower right away though? I mean they aren't exactly hard to build, it's just getting the right supplies to make one powerful enough.” There really seemed to be no great solutions, but then again if it was easy it would have been done long ago. The idea of Adrian teaching her hand-to-hand was somewhat frightening considering how angry he was when she had left. It seemed like she would be giving him permission to physically take out his anger on her. “That doesn't exactly sound like a great strategy. Though I suppose you can't throat punch a robot.”
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:11 pm
"I think Adrian looked into making one but it would have created too many structural problems. I mean in theory if Sybil hasn't found the drive in entrance to the Hangar we would be golden but it is likely that it found both entrances." Will began casually as if it was nothing more than a passive thought. "Most of the things in the Hangar are EMP resistant. We had a few problems with EMPs firing while we were trying to build the first one and Adrian got tired of shutting down work for days to do repairs so we prepped most of our machines to resists the pulse. Another reason we don't want Sybil in the Hangar. It would obtain the means to resist our electromagnetic pulses." Will dragged out the last two words as he stood and moved his shotgun back over to the table beside the door. "Our close quarter combat is really adapted from personal experience. The machines always go about taking you down the same way, they are machines, no real original thoughts. They see someone tall, they go for the legs. They see someone short, they go for the throat. We have all adapted from trial an error fighting with Sybil's little toys. Honestly the only way to learn is to get hurt."
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 4:12 pm
Amelia Cross “I suppose if there was an easy way to check, you would have done it already.” Amelia said more to herself than anything. It was likely Sybil had been told about both entrances rather than found them, but the result was the same. She sighed. “I’m not sure you could rely on one anyway. It knows you have an EMP, but it probably doesn’t know if it’s in the Hanger or if you have a way of setting it off. If I had to guess I would say it has some sort of contingency planned. We need something Sybil wouldn’t think of.” She could build almost anything machine related, but outside of the box thinking wasn’t exactly her strong suit which left them with Adrian’s plan and a whole lot of dead people for the time being. “I didn’t exactly expect combat training to be painless, but I figure it is better to get experience from something not trying to kill me. Besides I’m sure I’ll be terrible.”
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 4:56 pm
"If we wanted to out think Sybil we would need Adrain. He was the brains behind the revolution and right now, he's not doing too well." Will plopped onto the couch again but adjusted himself so it looked as if he was going to take a nap. "If something's not trying to kill you your not learning. You need to hone in on natural instinct so that when your fight or flight instincts kick in, you know how to fight. You won't learn soon enough. We just don't have the time. Your good with machines, use that. Build something Sybil won't expect. Don't try to fight if you don't have too."
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:26 pm
Amelia Cross "Yeah I've noticed." She said, mostly in response to his comment about Adrian not doing very good, though it could also apply to him being the brains of the operation. Amelia raised an eyebrow at Will saying they didn't have time to teach her while apparently settling down for a nap. In fact they all seemed to be doing a whole lot of nothing, but she decided to keep snarky comments to herself. "I already did, but it didn't seem to win me very many points. Besides it can only take machines out one at a time, which wouldn't be very helpful in the kind of assault you are talking about. I would have to make a bunch more, which I am guessing you don't have the time or materials for." She sighed closing her eyes. What could she possibly build that would help take back the Hanger that Sybil wouldn't see coming?
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:53 pm
"It didn't win you any points with Adrian but to be fair you did get his father killed. The rest of us are less incline to dislike you. " Will countered from the couch. They couldn't really do much right now. If they divided the team would be too small to launch any raids in the city and they couldn't leave Adrian unguarded so if they did choose to launch an attack they would have to divide. Johnathon was in the kitchen right now making calls to organize an attack but he was having a hard time. Losing the Hangar had damaged the morale of everyone in the resistance. Without Adrian there to give speeches, most had returned to Sybil. Clearly those who had returned weren't giving out information on the resistance though, if they had the safe house would have been attacked by now. Honestly this may have been best for the rebellion. Sybil would feel that it had won. Maybe it would lower its guard.
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 4:46 pm
Amelia Cross "To be fair it involved circumstances beyond my control." Amelia commented while standing up. Still it was nice to think they rest of them might not hate her as much as Adrian seemed to. "I should probably get going before he wakes up. I've been staying at a house, 1167 on 102 street, if you need anything." It had been set up by the resistance a while ago for her to work on her little side projects since she obviously couldn't do so at her apartment or at the Tower. Well probably by Adrian's father. "Oh, and the helmets. They should make moving around the city easier, they hide you from Sybil's most basic senors, just stay away from area's where it's actively looking for you, like the Tower." Integrating back into Sybil's system would never be an option for her or the others who had assaulted the tower. It would be looking for them, but monitoring camera's and running facial recognition everywhere in the city would be impossible. For years Sybil had been monitoring it's people another way.
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 6:23 pm
"You were captured, any one of us would die first. That is where you choice cost him his father." Will explained as he drummed his hands on his legs. "I don't blame you, we made a plan, it went wrong. Sure someone is to blame for mental issues that caused us to lose the time needed so save his father but I prefer to blame Sybil." Once will had finished explaining his opinion he looked over at Amelia. "Thank you for the helmets." It was just him being polite. They didn't need helmets, they didn't leave the building much but the helmets would be useful when they did. Most of the work was done over secret phone calls and planning but with Adrian out of commission, things were becoming a little more complicated. Everyone wanted some confirmation from the director, and the director was not able to give it.
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