CYBER-PULP FANTASY CORE-Sample Adventure-Lila's Apartment Part 3

CYBER-PULP FANTASY CORE

© Jerry Harris 2013

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Lila’s Office

It’s a mess of computer gear, electronics, and other effluvia of a lifestyle that didn’t involving cleaning.  And it’s been turned upside down and rifled through on top of it.  The characters going to be hard-pressed to find anything worthwhile here without extensive searching, which they don’t have time to scavenge through right now.

Thankfully, an Advanced Data Pad on a desk comes on when the characters start searching.  Virtual Lila appears and winks at them.  The screen goes to a login, which automatically fills in, allowing unlimited access to the system.  The characters may want to just take it with it and look at it later, in which case, Lila logs it in for them then.  While her main computer data was stolen, this Data Pad contains a backup copy, which was overlooked during the murder.  What’s there, depends on what you want them to find.  

--A highly encrypted Black Ice security program (DC 30).  Essentially, it kills hackers by feedback who are unsuccessful in attacking a system it’s been installed on.

--A series of e-mails between Lila and the Hopeless Romantic Web Gypsy tribe.  They are discussing a deal to unencrypt the Black Ice program.  (The Gypsies are the only ones with the resources to crack something that hard quickly.)  She offers her research in return for the activation code for it.  Tell the characters that they have a contact in the tribe, Mazzy.  (Virtual Lila does uphold her end of the deal and transmits her research to the gypsies.  They in turn send Virtual Lila the activation code for her Black Ice.  However, the code didn’t go to this e-mail account and went directly to Virtual Lila.) 

--A series of e-mails between Lila and Man-Zero, the Radical Humanoid.  They are discussing a deal for Black Ice in return for a Drow Soul Crystal.  Lila brings up that she’s found a Crystal at the Savantech office.  Man-Zero offers to steal it, in return for the Black Ice activation code.  He’s also rather mushy in his communications, and Lila seems be to flirting with him.  The communications take a bad turn as Lila withholds the code, after Man-Zero has delivered the Crystal. 

--A series of e-mails between Lila and a Coffee Shop, Central Perk, which is about a mile away.  She’s making a series of complicated orders in a flirtatious manner.  The replies from the owner, Stanley, come back, either saying that the order is ready for pick up, or that he’s unable to fill the order and offers an alternative.  In either case, Stanley seems very eager to see her again and fulfill her needs.  There’s plenty of empty Perk cups littering the office.

--Lila’s research into Total Consciousness Upload.  This data will be way over the character’s heads, but it’s easy enough to see what it is.