She calls Eiko just to say: "if anyone PINs in, get out right away." After all, if it's a trap, and it gets sprung, they won't need Eiko's investigation to tell them how the attacker got there
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Eiko nods, and moves down that way, pulling a device from her backpack. "Yeah, I'm picking up the characteristic traces of graviton/tachyon pulses that's characteristic of a PINpoint access opening." She pauses before entering the room, then reaches into the bag again and puts little paper footies over her shoes. That done, she enters the area, moving slowly and scanning. "....okay... and... yeah. Here's where he entered."
Eiko glances around. "So based on this, and the stains we have..." She moves to put her back to the place she indicated, and moves, almost shadow-boxing. It looks strange, yes.
Then she stops, knelt down, and looks up. "This is where the last blow was struck. He then went back to the portal and left. He probably left it open the whole time." The bag is set down, and Eiko assembles a circular frame in the area where she said the portal was. It takes three minutes, and then she presses the button. A reddish haze fills the frame, and Eiko watches her PDA.
"Going to take a little while to lock down the path he took," she says apologetically."
Hunnigan remains outside, although once she hears where the portal is she shifts her attention primarily to it. She's frowning, although that's likely at the possibility of getting blinded by someone dropping in. It's likely she's going to start wearing sunglasses soon.
She wishes she could be surprised that it was a PIN.
Eiko's progress and behavior is sort-of noted; she's distracted making sure nobody else is on the way to check one more thing or make sure they didn't drop their lucky quarter at the scene. She does note that most shadowboxers don't have to move so far to catch up with their opponent after a hit as Eiko is.
She nods at the 'last blow' comment. Eiko is in the right place, under a yard away from a wall dented and stained as though something very heavy, and rather bloody, hit very hard.
"We should have time." She shifts as she hears a car outside. It passes the driveway. She can stonewall returning police investigators and dismiss journalists, but she'd prefer as few people as possible to even know a federal agent was here. "The path we took? Are you able to get the destination coordinates?"
Hmm. Is Eiko expecting her to go track the murderer down? Not that she wouldn't head through another portal if she had to, but she rather suspects Eiko believes her to be more of a warrior than she is.
"Once this is done, we'll have the coordinates. I don't think going there is a good idea, though - it's hard to tell what might be walked into, and I for one don't want to stride into an Umbrella BOW containment center, or someplace they collapsed or filled with toxic gas." She pauses, organzing her thoughts.
"A PINpoint makes a sort of tunnel in the multiverse. It feels instantaneous, but at the same time it's extremely long. Once you start to work with more than the traditional three dimensions, those things start happening. But creating that tunnel leaves a distortion, like a boat through the water. With enough work, you can track a boat by its wake; the wake in the fabric of reality just lasts longer until things settle. I know it sounds weird, but I've done this before."
...to find Ramon after he got a PINpoint, before he could give it to his master. This part? She does not say.
She just waits for it to give her an answer.
(( if you have some idea what the answer should be, I don't want to go stepping on your toes, so please feel free to email me at gadgetqueen@mephron.com, or take the opportunity to puppet Eiko showing you coordinates and you recognizing them, or some such. Permisison is granted outright to let you do such! But for me, sleep. ))
My fault. I shouldn't have tried RPing plot-related stuff while out of contact.
We could have Eiko go "hm, these are familiar coordinates," and a fellow REtard say, "oops, my bad, I dropped in earlier to run a trace, only PIN used was mine." Or the perp could thumb his nose and have entered by other means, then gone by PIN to vanish into the Nexus.))
(( gonna run with this after reading the WeskerLink. ))
"Weird," she says. "It's a PINpoint-style resonance, but the tachyon-graviton transformation matrix-form is different." The red haze shifts, then disappears. "Damn! Lost it." She sighs, and rubs her forehead.
"This means that whoever got in here has something that's similar to a PINpoint, but not exactly it, and all my PINpoint tricks aren't going to work. The math is different enough that I can't make a reliable trace. I'm sorry."
Eiko is not happy about this. Because it means that a) they found a way to twist a PINpoint in a way she can't trace, b) they have someone who could figure out that sort of twisting on their side, and c) she can't guarantee any of her standard countermeasures will work. Which means going back to the drawing board with most of this.
"But I do have some ideas I can work on, based on these records." She looks disgruntled, but also slightly pleased. This is going to be quite a challenge to work out, and she's always loved something that stretched her mind. "I hope there's no reason to have to do this again, but if there is, I'm going to work on being ready for it."
((Resolves rapidly without requiring retconnish reposting. Nice save!))
She doubts Wesker managed that himself. He builds monsters, not interdimensional portals.
"He's hired an engineer in the Nexus?"
It's become clear to her that she's going to have to learn what she can from the Nexus laboratories. It may make Leon concerned about what she does with the information, and may draw attention at first, but that can't be helped.
"All right. Thank you. It's more than we knew before."
Back to square one, which was: how do you prevent a repeat of this?
Eiko rubs her eyes. "Possibly. I don't know all of them. Most of the people I know who could do such a thing wouldn't - either because Umbrella is offensive to them, or they have plans that Umbrella would interrupt." She goes through her mental database. "I'll do some asking around. Rearranging the matrix like that is not easy - the chance of coming out the other end as mathematical junk or randomized matter get pretty high."
She breaks down the scanner she used, putting it back in her backpack. "I'm not sure what I can do that won't violate our agreement with Leon not to let Nexus technology out, but if I think of something, you'll get it. Also..." She rummages in a side pouch of the package. "Leon already asked me to do this, so here it is: the anti-Plaga laser, weaponized. You can build it with mostly off-the-shell componentry, even." A CD is offered.
"I'll pass anything else I come up with to you through Leon. Because I don't want them having the ability to assassinate or kidnap at will."
Hunnigan motions to the room around her. "The man who died here was a retired senator, a former public figure. He was killed for revenge. He was vulnerable to this hit because of Nexus technology. Leon's arrangement prevents me from handing over technology for dissection. It doesn't prevent me from doing my job--which is keeping people safe."
She accepts the CD. "Thank you." A small part of her is already going into asssessment mode, prepared to look it over and compare with any prototypes her coworkers came up with from the data Leon assembled. The rest of her is still on the job: get Eiko clear safely. She glances over the floor, checking to be sure nothing's been dropped.
Eiko glances around. "So based on this, and the stains we have..." She moves to put her back to the place she indicated, and moves, almost shadow-boxing. It looks strange, yes.
Then she stops, knelt down, and looks up. "This is where the last blow was struck. He then went back to the portal and left. He probably left it open the whole time." The bag is set down, and Eiko assembles a circular frame in the area where she said the portal was. It takes three minutes, and then she presses the button. A reddish haze fills the frame, and Eiko watches her PDA.
"Going to take a little while to lock down the path he took," she says apologetically."
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She wishes she could be surprised that it was a PIN.
Eiko's progress and behavior is sort-of noted; she's distracted making sure nobody else is on the way to check one more thing or make sure they didn't drop their lucky quarter at the scene. She does note that most shadowboxers don't have to move so far to catch up with their opponent after a hit as Eiko is.
She nods at the 'last blow' comment. Eiko is in the right place, under a yard away from a wall dented and stained as though something very heavy, and rather bloody, hit very hard.
"We should have time." She shifts as she hears a car outside. It passes the driveway. She can stonewall returning police investigators and dismiss journalists, but she'd prefer as few people as possible to even know a federal agent was here. "The path we took? Are you able to get the destination coordinates?"
Hmm. Is Eiko expecting her to go track the murderer down? Not that she wouldn't head through another portal if she had to, but she rather suspects Eiko believes her to be more of a warrior than she is.
Leon is a tough act to follow.
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"A PINpoint makes a sort of tunnel in the multiverse. It feels instantaneous, but at the same time it's extremely long. Once you start to work with more than the traditional three dimensions, those things start happening. But creating that tunnel leaves a distortion, like a boat through the water. With enough work, you can track a boat by its wake; the wake in the fabric of reality just lasts longer until things settle. I know it sounds weird, but I've done this before."
...to find Ramon after he got a PINpoint, before he could give it to his master. This part? She does not say.
She just waits for it to give her an answer.
(( if you have some idea what the answer should be, I don't want to go stepping on your toes, so please feel free to email me at gadgetqueen@mephron.com, or take the opportunity to puppet Eiko showing you coordinates and you recognizing them, or some such. Permisison is granted outright to let you do such! But for me, sleep. ))
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My fault. I shouldn't have tried RPing plot-related stuff while out of contact.
We could have Eiko go "hm, these are familiar coordinates," and a fellow REtard say, "oops, my bad, I dropped in earlier to run a trace, only PIN used was mine." Or the perp could thumb his nose and have entered by other means, then gone by PIN to vanish into the Nexus.))
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"Weird," she says. "It's a PINpoint-style resonance, but the tachyon-graviton transformation matrix-form is different." The red haze shifts, then disappears. "Damn! Lost it." She sighs, and rubs her forehead.
"This means that whoever got in here has something that's similar to a PINpoint, but not exactly it, and all my PINpoint tricks aren't going to work. The math is different enough that I can't make a reliable trace. I'm sorry."
Eiko is not happy about this. Because it means that a) they found a way to twist a PINpoint in a way she can't trace, b) they have someone who could figure out that sort of twisting on their side, and c) she can't guarantee any of her standard countermeasures will work. Which means going back to the drawing board with most of this.
"But I do have some ideas I can work on, based on these records." She looks disgruntled, but also slightly pleased. This is going to be quite a challenge to work out, and she's always loved something that stretched her mind. "I hope there's no reason to have to do this again, but if there is, I'm going to work on being ready for it."
(( there, that should be good. ))
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She doubts Wesker managed that himself. He builds monsters, not interdimensional portals.
"He's hired an engineer in the Nexus?"
It's become clear to her that she's going to have to learn what she can from the Nexus laboratories. It may make Leon concerned about what she does with the information, and may draw attention at first, but that can't be helped.
"All right. Thank you. It's more than we knew before."
Back to square one, which was: how do you prevent a repeat of this?
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She breaks down the scanner she used, putting it back in her backpack. "I'm not sure what I can do that won't violate our agreement with Leon not to let Nexus technology out, but if I think of something, you'll get it. Also..." She rummages in a side pouch of the package. "Leon already asked me to do this, so here it is: the anti-Plaga laser, weaponized. You can build it with mostly off-the-shell componentry, even." A CD is offered.
"I'll pass anything else I come up with to you through Leon. Because I don't want them having the ability to assassinate or kidnap at will."
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She accepts the CD. "Thank you." A small part of her is already going into asssessment mode, prepared to look it over and compare with any prototypes her coworkers came up with from the data Leon assembled. The rest of her is still on the job: get Eiko clear safely. She glances over the floor, checking to be sure nothing's been dropped.
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