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Post by Da Pwny on Feb 28, 2008 13:40:11 GMT -5
"Oooo... well aren't you quite the sweetheart?" May said, whipping up a Southern accent while doing so just to play at Jason's nerves. Typing in the password, she got on more easily than she thought. "This is almost too easy..." she mumbled under her breath, "Like taking candy from a baby..." Still, she set up her defense protocols before advancing; an anti-viral self-defense program was chief among them, but she also set up an anonymous IP, along with several varieties of track-covering items to keep anyone watching off their backs. As she remotely logged into the principle's computer, May silently prayed that she could find something to put him under with should they need to do so... Soon enough, she did, and it was a doozy too. "Hey Jason, I think you should look at this..." she stated, whistling under her breath as she absentmindedly downloaded several files in particular labeled with dates rather than names. Her attention at the moment was on the grade sheets, however, so she didn't notice any of the file names listed from the downloaded files... "It would appear that our dear principle is using his power in the school to change grades... That's a pretty big offense there, but its not going to be enough..." Next, she began searching for the network drive that would take her to the security cameras. After several minutes, she came up empty. "Well, at least we got this much right now. The security cameras are on a separate network, which isn't all that surprising. Now I'm curious about these files here..." As soon as she opened the file, May had an uneasy feeling, but nothing could have prepared her for what was inside. Just the sight of it all nearly made her throw up; child phornography, rape photos, and other stuff of the like... and a lot of it looked fresh too, no watermarks or anything. "Jason, don't look at this" she said, closing the lid halfway so he wouldn't be tempted. "Let me just say that I think we have him pretty solid now. The only thing left is that tape, and that network is closed so we'll have to do a bit of recon here... Well, mostly I guess I'll be stuck with that..." Opening the computer back up, she started the laborious task of logging out, covering up her tracks as often as possible; even one simple inconsistency could set off alarms everywhere. "I've got an idea for that too..." she said; as soon as she got out of her hacking program, she brought up the site she met Stephan on, and tried to get ahold of him quickly... *sry for the wait Crow XD I know that must've been so torturous sitting through that bit there *
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Post by Crow on Feb 28, 2008 13:55:54 GMT -5
He nearly fell out of his bed as his speakers played an annoyingly loud chime. He got up and moved over to his computer, turning down the volume. "Raven:What is it?"
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Post by Da Pwny on Feb 28, 2008 15:25:11 GMT -5
"savate_champ: sry if I disturbed you, but I might need a favor tomorrow... nothing major, just wondering if you could distract a security guard or two. We all know that something is wrong with that video tape, and I plan on getting a copy of the original either tomorrow or tomorrow night... if I can get it during school then all the better because I won't have to commit to breaking and entering. I'd rather not have that on my record... >.> <.<
again. XD"
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Post by Crow on Feb 28, 2008 16:15:28 GMT -5
"Raven:What kind of scale are you looking for here? Food fight in the cafateria, disaster in the teacher's lounge, or somthing else? You have to tell me tonight so I can have a plan set up."
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Post by Da Pwny on Feb 28, 2008 19:55:41 GMT -5
"savate_champ: hmm... Well something big enough to get the security guard outside the camera room... I've got a little reconnaissance to do in there. shouldn't be more than a ten, fifteen minute job at the absolute most. I would hack them from here, but the cameras are on a closed circuit system, so yeah... out of the question."
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Post by Crow on Feb 29, 2008 1:51:42 GMT -5
"Raven: A few dozen cats and dogs mixed in the teacher's lounge should do just fine. I didn't really feel like going to class tomorrow anyway. Don't ask me how I'm going to do it. That's going to be the mystery."
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Post by knightc3 on Feb 29, 2008 5:10:07 GMT -5
"Stephan, the mysterious guy", he joked as he stood behind May reading all the correspondence. He put the cell phone down next to her laptop.
"Look, I am coming with you whether you want me to or not. After that little stunt the principle pulled, those f**ks would be feeling the kings of the school. I am letting you enter the building alone. Don't you worry about me, I will find a way inside past the guard on the door and with all the rumors that would be running wild, nobody would dare report me once I am inside."
He paused to wait for a reply. He was surprised May had not asked about that suspicious phone call he had just made.
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Post by Da Pwny on Feb 29, 2008 6:29:49 GMT -5
"I think that would be unwise..." she stated, "given that your face stands out quite well, and even people who are afraid wouldn't think twice about getting the police in there. Besides, there's the guards too, who wouldn't hesitate to either take you down, or shoot you. You're staying here and most certainly not getting involved in this part. I'm sorry Jason, but if you go to jail, that will only make things harder... Besides, why are you here to begin with?"
She stopped for a second; everything had been happening so fast that she hadn't thought about one thing very much... "And who's Diana?!" her voice stated, a slight bit of fright appearing in her voice...
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Post by knightc3 on Feb 29, 2008 7:47:17 GMT -5
"But...", he began to protest just as she asked the question. He paused, "Oh, Diana? Right well, she is the good-looking personal secretary of the principle. You might have seen her today in the office. I had to wait around her, outside the principle's office a lot of times because of the trouble I got myself into." He hesitated before continuing, she had after all told him everything about her past. It would be unfair to hide anything from her. "Well, you know, eventually she kinda fell for me . Apparently she seemed to have a thing for younger, 'bad' men...", he paused again and smiled, "I mean I thought it was just harmless flirtation so I played along but one day out of the blue, she asked me to... sleep with her! When I refused she got hostile and threatened to complain that I was sexually harassing her. So I went home with her, hoping for anything, an earthquake that would flatten the town, a tornado, I mean, anything to get me out of the situation. Unfortunately... or fortunately that tornado was her boyfriend who came home from work early to surprise her. Suffice to say he beat the living crap out of me that day. Since then, its kinda gone back to her making jokes about it now and then. She seems to be going steady with her boyfriend... so yeah, good for me. I actually hope they never break up."
He looked at May, "This is the truth, ok. I just thought I will try and see if she actually believed I was innocent. Hence the password... So are we gonna deal with your basement today or what?", he added.
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Post by Da Pwny on Feb 29, 2008 21:00:22 GMT -5
By about half-way through, May was laughing. She had no idea that such things happened, but looking at Jason she could understand, at least a little... Still, it was hilarious. "My god... I never... You're not joking, are you?!" She suppressed the rest of her laughter, trying to get herself back under control. May didn't want to hurt his feelings, and it wasn't until he mentioned that he had been beaten upon that she stopped laughing, the giggles coming in fits now. It was demented of her to laugh at such things, but she really couldn't help it much...
"The basement... well..." Her mood had obviously changed, as she now had to think about something that would need to be taken on eventually... "Are you sure? I still want to look that room over again. And there could be more rooms around. Besides... why would someone want to hide that room? Its so beautiful, someone had to have a reason for sealing it off..." Feeling the camera still sitting on the night stand, she put the laptop aside for the moment. "This is like a crime scene... that woman seemed much younger than this house, so my guess is that she may have either been killed here or-"
She stopped herself; up until the last few days, she'd never really believed in ghosts, and now, she was being confronted with them left and right... it was all so much to cope with, but she seemed to not mind a bit, as May seemed to be accepting it quite well for a rather normal person, even her own ability to 'touch' them... speaking of which, the young girl whom she'd been around earlier appeared beside her, holding onto May's arm in a manner like all children did. Looking over to her lovingly, May stroked the girl's hair; most certainly, her sudden appearance would shock Jason, but if May kept calm, then perhaps he would not freak out so badly. "And then there's this girl... I have my ideas, but I want to be sure about where she came from..."
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Post by knightc3 on Feb 29, 2008 23:01:30 GMT -5
He smiled when he saw her laughing. He was glad to take her mind of everything, even if it was just for a few minutes. "You know you made the beating worth it, just to see you laugh like that..." , he jumped back as the girl appeared by May's side, "Whoa, crap... ok thats freaky." He stopped himself from doing anything and just stood there as he saw May hadn't reacted to it yet.
"Uh, I am assuming you have met her before...", he didn't know what to say. After today, ghosts didn't seem to much of an issue anymore. "So are you gonna introduce me then?", he said looking at the girl smiling kindly. He figured she didn't really mean any harm. Ofcourse he didn't know how she would react to HIM.
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Post by Da Pwny on Mar 1, 2008 7:44:10 GMT -5
"Oh, well... Maria, this is Jason... Maria?" The little girl had moved behind May, peeking out rather... childishly. "Maria, he's no one you need to fear, silly." But the girl clung to her shirt, physically wrinkling it. May simply laughed softly. Turning back to Jason somewhat, she said "Well, she might be the girl you said you saw in the window on this house... I think she was lost here when her mother disappeared, and either met a similar fate or something of the like tragic enough to trap her here... I don't know why, but..."
She turned back completely now, looking at her hands. "I can actually... touch her. As in I can feel every strand of hair on her head, every beat of the heart inside her that doesn't exist... God, what AM I? Is my child going to suffer from this? So... so many questions... and I can't answer them..."
May reached around and picked up Maria gingerly, placing the girl in her lap and cuddling her to her breasts, slowly rocking her as the girl clung to her shirt, nuzzling her head against May's chest. It was so soothing for May that she sighed, already feeling like a mother. "I think her mother was that woman who attacked us... In fact, I feel certain of it! I don't know how, but we need to get the two together again, or they'll both be tormented forever... How about we start there? I'm sure anything else we see can't be any less frightening than that woman was, so it would be a good starting place..."
May shuddered a little as the child fell asleep and disappeared; she sighed, sitting up. "We faced her before, and now we know how to fight these things. But I'd rather only use the camera for clue-gathering, or if things get out of control. So... shall we?" She extended a hand to Jason, inviting him to take the roughened appendage and hoist her to her feet off the bed...
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Post by knightc3 on Mar 1, 2008 8:17:36 GMT -5
He tried to touch the ghost but pulled his hand back as he saw May take the girl on to her lap. He just watched her rocking the child to sleep. He didn't say anything but he knew she was going to have the baby, despite any effort he made to convince her otherwise. He secretly prayed, something he had stopped doing a long time ago.
Please god, protect her. Don't take her away from me...
He started smiling as she looked up at him. He took her hand and helped her off the bed after the girl had dissapeared. "Ok, we will stay here. Lets just hope your mom doesn't catch us in your room. So what do you want to do while we wait for the scary ghost to show up?", he added grinning.
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Post by Da Pwny on Mar 1, 2008 12:44:04 GMT -5
"Wait for it? I think we'll be going to her again... Still, there's more to be seen in there. And probably in other rooms, if we look hard enough. So lets go!" With a bit more gung-ho than she was used to, May led the way, but instantly turned timid as she opened the door. She wasn't used to taking on ghosts, but she'd been learning quickly, and May wouldn't be scared, for both of their sakes...
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Post by knightc3 on Mar 1, 2008 13:52:37 GMT -5
"Well... ok.", he said and just followed her, keeping an eye out for... anything out of the ordinary. He didn't know what to expect in this house anymore. He also felt helpless as he realized he could not help May with the ghosts except being there for support. She was the only one for now who seem to be able to 'touch' the ghosts and they seem to be able to touch her, which was his major concern. That meant they directly effect her, maybe cause damage and he could do nothing.
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