| From: | Dark Elf <VESPOSIT@****.SUNYSB.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Again... |
| Date: | Thu, 20 May 1993 16:06:25 EDT |
world.
It's just you, me, and Nightstalker makes three.
We're just about done with the IC, it's time to party. You know what to do
'Stalker ]<<<<<
-- Dark Elf <16:10:55/05-20-54>
>>>>>[ Another Virus! Do you seek to annoy me into submission?
]<<<<<
-- MONICA v2.*
>>>>>[ Nightstalker wanted to use an old trick that worked against some of
your old friends, you'll find it hard to do anything even if you beat us.
<virtual image mode>
<<Nightstalker and Dark Elf's icons stand side by side facing a familiar
female icon. The red of the node pulses a sickly dark red that indicates
viral infection.>>
MONICA: AH, You've decided to come out of hiding. Before you die, I'd like
to tell you that I've already begun to exert my influence on the corporate
world. Through Mr. Meyers and the remote Robotic Combat Units he has
so nicely developed, I've rocked the corporate world with strikes against
two major corporations. I can no longer take control as I did before, but
when Meyers copied and rebooted segments of me after removing the filth you
two helped infect me with I was still left with an intelligence 1024 times
that of my creator. I will use my guile to command the Matrix from without
instead of within. Your next of kin will worship me as a goddess!
NIGHTSTALKER: Then we did kill MONICA! This isn't her, this is just some
program that thinks it's the scoruge of the Matrix.
DARK ELF: Almost true. Meyers activated a patched up copy of the original,
but this thing has retained the memories and desires of the original. You can
do strange things with software.
MONICA: Enough, it's time for you to leave.
<<Two black tentacles lash out from MONICAs hands, striking the two deckers
before her. They are gone...>>
DARK ELF: Like that trick!!! I call it creative use of smartframes and message
routing! Lets take her 'stalker!
MONICA: Where are you....
<<The two deckers reappear on either side of her, Dark Elf striking away with
a blazing broadsword, Nightstalker with a ninjato. MONICA appears affected
by the blows. She strikes back. The three continue to dance through the
node, trading blows. Finally, Dark Elf appears cornered...
A glowing shield appears in front of him as MONICA strikes again.
DARK ELF: 'Stalker...I can't take much more of this...
<< Nightstalker's icon leaps out of nowhere, ninjato cleaving through MONICAs
icon. She turns to face him, and is struck by both deckers simultaneously
from both sides. She stands frozen in the node, unnmoving.
NIGHTSTALKER: How did we do that to her?
DARK ELF: I'm not quite sure, that slow program you popped on her before must
have interacted somehow with the code our attack programs introduced...
it's just bizzare.
NIGHTSTALKER: Thanks for small miracles. Let's clean up the mess. You look
like you could use a cup of soykaf.
DARK ELF: Hmm, scans indicate that her code is locked. The system cleanup
routines just killed her running process, she's gone, but her virtual image
is stuck here. It'll probably disintigrate on the next system cleanup pass,
and the viruses that we released will take care of it soon anyway. Look,
there it goes.
<<all trace of MONICA fades away
DARK ELF: Those viruses will play havok with this system for a while,
especially with the CPU locked out.
NIGHTSTALKER: Meyers deserves it! Lets go get that cup of soykaf chummer.
DARK ELF: Yeah, it's time to go.
<end virtual image mode> ]<<<<<
-- Dark Elf <16:37:38/05-20-54>
