Log 4-8
As Screed pushes the button, you hear the meeting already in progress...
It is 8:01 p.m.
"...and I am concerned that we take care of this before we get started," a man's voice is saying. "Someone here is not here in good faith. The traitor must be revealed if the Shadow Regime is to gain favor with the Merotechs."
Another man. "We will do what we can, Da Vinci. Do you know who among us is the traitor?"
A pause of silence.
"Him." You hear the sounds of a scuffle, then silence. "We will take care of him later. He has led agents of Zero-One to this place along with several other intruders that still walk these halls."
"What about our truce? What about our exchange?"
"You want our technology to make the Shadow Regime stronger, yet the Shadow Regime still bows before Zero-One like a slave before his master."
"What can we do to prove our loyalty? We will rise up against this master when we have the strength...the strength you will help us obtain."
"We want the Awakened eliminated. Erased from the master program permanently. We agree to release information you want for each Awakened you destroy."
"That will be a drain on our resources, Da Vinci."
"Yes, Armand, but we are only AI, and the Awakened can detect us and prevent our attempts far easier than yours."
"What technology will you share with us if we comply?"
"We can alter your genetic programming so that your projected self is stronger and...different. My lycanthrope programs and vampire programs shall be made available to your people first. You can self inject or make servants like these."
"You shall have our aid then, but we will need to know where to begin."
"Begin with him," Da Vinci says. "And then kill the intruders listening to us beyond that wall." There is a silence as you can feel all the gazes turning toward the wall where you listen in from. "My infrared vision sensors pick up eavesdroppers."
You hear a sudden sound and then a familiar woman's voice. "Let him go or know the wrath of the Awakened." It is the woman you just spoke with a few minutes back.
Da Vinci seems nonplussed. "Kill them all," he says.