Compromised Systems : Day 2
-October 23, 2008-
-Humans: 209 Zombies: 91-
Around 3pm, after nearly an entire day of silence, the op sent an urgent request for the survivors to meet Major Freeman that afternoon to assist Dr. Kathleen Reinhurst.
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When the humans arrived Freeman quickly brought everyone up to speed. Reinhurst had discovered that the very nanobots she had helped develop to stop the virus were somehow being used to spread the current outbreak. These zombies were smarter, faster, and more organized then their predecessors.
Further, she had discovered that they were going straight for Syrner’s core systems, specifically the Communication Grid, Research Database, Security Systems and Sensor Array. They had begun locking down the nodes but that would take another hour and they didn’t have that long before all systems would be compromised.
The humans’ mission was simple: go, find the nodes, and prevent the zombies from infecting the systems they would need if they were to survive. They had an hour. They quickly found the 4 nodes, surrounded by zombies attempting to breach the security protocols – each protocol represented by a different puzzle. At the BNB node the zombies attempted to solve a sudoku puzzle, the Sunken Garden node a cryptogram, the Red Barn Park node a logic puzzle, and at the West Campus node the zombies worked to win a chess game against a holographic opponent.
After an hour of fighting to take and protect the nodes the humans retreated to safety. They had secured all nodes but the one linked to the Communications Grid. Without it they would not be able to contact the outside world for assistance and there was no telling what the zombies would do now. However, there was still hope of survival with the three other systems intact.
That evening a very select number of players who had been in communication with the op received text messages that simply said “You will be receiving a mission email soon. Zombies won’t know. Speed and stealth is a must. Please help. –OP”
Then, at 11:30pm an email to all human forces was sent out. A shipment of heavy weaponry had made it into the city before the full quarantine had been enacted and was sitting in the Pershing parking lot (courtesy of the op). If the humans could make it there and transport the crates to the Barnett facility the op would be able to “reallocate” one of the them for use. By 11:45 several human squads descended on the parking lot where they rendezvoused with a handful of Vulcan wielding Sryner associates and by 12:10 they had transported all the crates, unlocking automatics.
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Player of note:
In the node mission zombie Kelsy Parker successfully completed the Sunken Garden node (the cryptogram). While many zombies contributed to that solution, Kelsy completed the last few leters moments before the human forces retook the area. This single event prevented the humans from being able to contact the outside world, cutting of all possibilities of a rescue.