voice;

[hanzer]

[There's very little preamble before the network gets an earful of the distinctive, raspy tones of a certain ex-cop. Guy sounds like he smokes his cigarettes and eats them too. He also doesn't sound exactly comfortable to be speaking on the network, but anyone who's met him in person in the past few days knows that that forced impassivity is kind of his thing.]

I'm looking for someone who can work with cybernetics. Some know-how with computers or engineering would probably help, but I figure some of that comes with the territory. [A pause, and then:] Discretion preferred.

[The way he says it, one kind of gets the sense that he'd gladly find a way to make even the most indiscreet person suddenly learn the meaning of patient confidentiality– but it's just as easy to believe that that's just the way he talks.

There's another longer pause and then, at length, he adds:] I'd also be interested in speaking to anyone who can talk about the crewman we've got in the hold.

[Spooky, scary, skeleton-like – you've probably heard of Ploiatos. Adam certainly has, and (being the security-minded guy he is) he'd love to know what having a literal skeleton in the closet entails.

And since Adam Jensen's never exactly been known for ending conversations gracefully, that's where he chooses to cut the message off.

Certainly, no one can say he isn't to-the-point.]

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video;

[whoami]

To be fair, I am not liking how hard I've had to work just to find the scraps of data I have. The "captains" as in the ones that came before should have been way more transparent if they did expect the crew's help.

[ Sam is not impressed by any of it, and while you might stick with voice, Sam makes use of the mods he's added to the MID system and does video. He looks to be lounging on his bed, though. Sure it's an open channel, but it's not like Sam's talking about anything important. ]

And if it turns out to be of any use, consider this an offer. Anyway, I don't think the new "captain" will be that much better. 'Greet the new boss same as the old boss' you know?

[hanzer]

Everybody's got secrets. The new captain or the old ones. [Echoing what he'd said to someone earlier. It may be a truism, but he hadn't realized how relevant it'd been until very recently.

That's right, though– Flynn's a MID tech. There's a pause, and then:] Actually, there's something specific that you might be able to help me with. Something involving the MID.

[whoami]

[ Sam doesn't seem all that interested, honestly. You aren't the first to have asked for his help with the MID's after all. ]

Yeah? Well that depends what you're wanting.

-> voice; private

[hanzer]

[Taking a cue from Spock, this sort of talk moves him to encrypt his following messages. Really not the sort of guy to go around and blab about his body over public channels. "Discretion preferred," indeed.]

Already got an implant that does a lot of what the MID does with telecomms. Thing is, it's integrated with some other implants of mine in a way that the MID isn't – cochlear, mastoid, ocular, et cetera.

I don't want to lose their functions just because I can't connect to this network, so think you can figure out a way to mod the MID so it can interface with what I've already got?

video -> text; private

[whoami]

[ Sam nods, and the video abruptly winks out. Likewise taking a page from Spock's book, Sam does send a public key across ]

You realize that may not be possible, right? It may be that your implants are just too different. Cybernetics is out of my league.

[hanzer]

Yeah, I realize that. [And frankly, he's kept his hopes pretty low to as not to disappoint himself.] Kind of shooting in the dark. Hoping that there's some crossover between the MID techs and the cyberneticists on board.

[So far, the crossover seems to be rather slim, but he's still exploring his options.] But if you're saying you can't do it...

[Then there's something else that Sam might be able to help him with, in that case. Something else related to the MID. But Adam's going to wait and see what his response is first. In his experience, appealing to that sense of vanity that a lot of these tech-oriented people have on some level – this desire to see a problem solved by their own hand – can get them to change their tune pretty quickly.]


(( heads up, i did get the go ahead for stuff like this today. 8) ))

[whoami]

I didn't say 'no', I said it might not be possible. If you already know that, then okay. I'll give it a try.

[ Appealing to vanity does work, to a degree. If the hardware doesn't matchup though? Well there's not much Sam could do about that. Call this informed consent. ]

((\8D/ Hurray for doing the thing~))

[hanzer]

Trying can't hurt. [And even if it does, he thinks grimly, a soft reset is just a death away – at least if what he's heard about "resurgence" is true.

Not that he's counting (or intending) on it coming to that.]

Gonna be honest with you, I really only know how to utilize my augs, what they're supposed to do – couldn't tell you much about how they're supposed to do it. [In that sense, he knows even less about his own body than most people know about theirs – he never had the advantage of a 10th grade biology class for this sort of thing.] But whatever info you need from me, I'll try my best to give.

[whoami]

The biology bit is out of my league tbh. So I'm just trying to get the audio "talking" to the implants you said you had in your mastoid and cochlear bone. Then do something similar for voice. Text would be easy since it's pretty much just turning those retractable sunglasses into a screen.

Not sure how you would use text? Maybe voice-to-text. You'd still have to talk out loud, though.