Re: Return to X8T-121: Aerielle
<b>20:55, Today: Alynita rolled 21,22 using 1d20+9,1d20+9. Electronics + Computer checks.
Bleh. Not very good rolls, but at least both are 'over the top'.
She had no idea if this was going to work. It didn't seem too likely that Tau'ri or Tok'ra technology would be compatible with this system, since it was built by the Ancients. Still, it was made of stone and was intended for the Dwarves' usage.
The drawback to all computer systems was the human operator, since no organic being could process data and type at the keyboard as fast as a computer could process the information. Therefore, the system developed was called 'sampling'--check all possible sources of input in a continuous sequence until it got a hit.
[OOC: After a confab with the GM...]
First, she had to find the circuit in the wall that corresponded to that computer sampling pulse. It would be different than the rest of the electrical currents flowing through the wall. Without understanding the stone-circuit technology, Alynita had no way of knowing if such a signal was in every section of the wall, or just in certain areas.
Turned out it wasn't, but it was near all the doorways.
The wifi in the computer wouldn't be that strong, so it'd have a limited range, especially if it had to penetrate the stone, so she wanted to get as close to the source as possible.
Now she had to tweak the wifi to find the right frequency. She'd been hoping that the frequency wouldn't be too outlandish, and it turned out she was right. Dwarves and stone again. There was a limited range of workable frequencies at this tech level. She was pretty sure the Ancients operated on wavelengths that they hadn't yet discovered, but, fortunately, they didn't use any of them here.
"I got it!" she exclaimed.
Indeed, as she said this, Sarah saw a flicker to the screen, and then a steady stream of symbols began scrolling off the screen faster than she could read them.
"Okay, step one is done. Now to connect it to the radio."
Alynita tapped a key on the keyboard and the scrolling symbols suddenly froze into a single line.
She pulled a patch cord out of the computer's case and plugged one end into the audio output of the computer. The other end she plugged into the radio.
"What's it saying, Sarah?"