I nod. "When in doubt, keep going one's terrible ideas."The Surveybot immediately goes into Shutdown mode! It looks like its activated its last-ditch shutdown loop, in the emergency of it being taken control of! A cursory glance reveals that the emergency shutdown loop is hardcoded into the hardware itself... the only way to end it is to remove the CPU Motherboard Processor Unit!
Somewhere, an automatic system detects the sudden unexpected shutdown of a Survey Drone. Appropriate measures are taken.
Cloak runs over to help you, helpfully replacing the "property of Evacucorp incorpated" engraved text with engraved "property of CaptainNZZZ".
Cloak: This is quite the crazy plan! Do we take this thing over, and use it to try and storm the place, or just disable it permanently and use the surveillance control panel?
Cloak: If you want to take this thing over, I can use the control panel. Either way, I have the feeling that on the off-chance security wasn't coming before, we're in for it now.
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Surveillance room:
Many surveillance screens
Large control panel
Employees-only downstairs:
Cloak(assisting with Survey Drone)
Entity vault hall entrance
Survey-Drone-MKIV: 500,000/500,000 HP (not attacking)(Disabled - potentially controllable?)(Property of CaptainNZZZ)
Players:
CaptainNZZZ(has Charisma)(Ticket #2,423,991,081,321)(has complete Entity Requisition Form, Mop bucket, Janitor uniform, truth serum machine)
Rewards:
Confessions of a Paradox Gambler
Orb of Shielding(2 attack shields - free action)
This endeavor feels like its taking forever! Though, considering this place may or may not literally be purgatory, it makes sense. You feel like one way or another, the end of this sidequest can't be delayed too much longer.
Locating the CPU Motherboard Processor Unit by remembering where the drone's core was during my hacking attempt I cause that portion of the drone to become intangible, the CPU Motherboard Processor Unit falling right out of the Survey Drone and into the ground.
Popping my fingers I conjure up a C.L.T.C Motherboard Processor Unit and teleport it into the space the CPU Motherboard Processor Unit had previously occupied. As C.L.T.C stands for Completely Loyal To CaptainNZZZ it's programmed to be completely loyal to me, I prefer not to make another mistake at this critical moment.
The C.L.T.C unit quickly interfaces with the Survey Drone's frame, sending out complex subroutes to both reactivate and take control of the frame as the unit itself remains safe behind layers of cyber-defenses.
Looking over at Cloak I shout, "Get to that control panel, I have a feeling we're going to need it soon!"
Yet as I work to convert the Survey-Drone-MKIV to my side worry begins to full the back of my mind. Despite all the time I've spend in Evacucorp and everything I've done here I still haven't found any of the entities I came here to reclaim. Considering how I feel like this side-adventure will end this is very concerning. Hopefully with the Survey Drone and Cloak using control panel in the Surveillance room we'll manage to reach my entities because otherwise this trip will have been a complete failure.
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