Video - about a week after the possession attempt

[highprofilerichkid]

[With the information Wan and Valdis got during Wan's attempt to possess Asti, it seems like the foreigners are gearing up for their final stand, and so Tony has pushed through his exhaustion to finally finish the radios he's been working on.

He definitely looks tired, but to anyone who saw him in the first couple days after the possession attempt, he's obviously much improved. Extremis has finally started to bounce back.]

The secondary network is ready. Better late than never, right? [His tone is a little dry. He's glad he finally got it done, but he's disappointed it took him this long.] Anyway, I've got the handsets here at Stark Industries. Every foreigner should have one - even if you don't think you need one for private communications, we may have to use them for emergency broadcasts.

If you can't pick one up, I'll be sending people around to distribute them. If you can help with the distribution, let me know.

And I've still got a couple of the self-defense devices left, if anyone still wants one of those.



[OOC Note: Like the devices from his last announcement, Tony won't be giving out the details of the radios over the console network. He and the people delivering the handsets will give out the necessary information in person.

The radios are audio-only and look and function approximately like walkie-talkies, with a couple exceptions:
--The units are powered both by a rechargeable battery, and magical sigils (courtesy of Anton). The battery can be recharged normally, but the sigils will also keep the units constantly charged so long as they are in contact with a person.
--Unless they run out of charge, the radios are always in low-power mode when not in active use. This is to ensure that people don't miss emergency broadcasts because their handsets are turned off.
--Each unit has an individual frequency, so that people can contact each other privately. Any number of radios can be tuned to the same frequency, so group conversations are also possible.

Anyone can make a public broadcast by tuning their radio to the public channel; broadcasts can also be made from Stark Industries, or the transmitter unit owned by Hayley.

It is not necessary to thread out your character picking up their radio, or to make an ooc request for a radio. It can be assumed that every foreigner receives a radio within a day or two, so that everyone has one before the endplot.

Secondary network threads can be posted just like regular console threads, just indicate that it is over the secondary network rather than the consoles.]

Comments

[highprofilerichkid]

[Limits are for people with no imagination, Aya! You know what Tony calls limits? He calls them "project ideas."]

Okay, then let's do this. [His headspace dissolves into abstraction again as he focuses on Extremis, sending a long series of commands to the armor. Unfold and assemble, check servos, do a full-spectrum scan of the room, run a systems diagnostic... and so on, finally culminating in a command to return to its storage configuration.

He shifts his attention back to Aya.] Did you get anything from that?

[looksfine]

[Similarly, the moment the headspace changed, Aya's own eyes began to glow. Analyzing, just as she said she would. Some of the information...the method made it difficult for accuracy, but a lot of the information made it through. He was right: they were compatible.]

[...enough.]

Roughly 87.6%

Accessing the records, and cross-referencing with all known methods of data encryption now.

[highprofilerichkid]

[Man, this is so weird. Tony feels like there ought to be some tactile feedback when someone's poking around in your brain - tickling, or tingling, or something. But there's nothing - the only sign that there's anything happening at all is Aya's glowing eyes. (And imaginary glowing eyes, at that, since Aya's form is currently nothing more than a mental avatar.)

87.6% sounds promising, though.]

Should I put Extremis on hold, or keep sending signals out?

[looksfine]

[Everything was happening precisely how reality would happen in this precise scenario. It never occurred to her otherwise.]

No. Do not end transmission yet.

I am compiling a list of probably encryptions. Some of them have a high success with minimal disruption to your normal processing speeds.

[highprofilerichkid]

Sounds good.

[Tony dutifully maintains the link with his armor, running a more comprehensive set of system checks to pass the time and keep the data stream flowing.]

How long do you think it'll take?

[looksfine]

[Two seconds later:]

I am done.

[The glow faded, and she tilted her head upward to meet Tony's gaze directly.]

I believe I have succeeded. Three separate possible encryptions can be utilized to suit your specific requirements, depending upon degree of restriction and external access backdoor inclusions.

[highprofilerichkid]

Oh. [That was fast - not that Tony would have expected anything else from Aya.] Awesome.

Do you think you can... show them to me? So I'll know what I'm working with?

[looksfine]

Certainly.

[She had no reason to refuse the request, and as such, held up a palm and waited until it began to glow green. The light grew brighter and brighter until it shot upward, creating a green-tinted, three-dimentional holoscreen. Schematics of everything she had scanned, subsequent calculations, and even a few visual models appeared, each scrolling past Tony's eyes at a rate most humans might not be able to process.]

[Then again, Aya suspected that Tony was not like most humans.]

I would not be adverse to receiving input from your perspective. This is for you, after all.

[highprofilerichkid]

[The data moves fast, but not too fast for Tony - especially not here inside his own mind, where he isn't technically constrained by the need to visually process the information.]

Looks good. I might change a couple things here... [He touches the holoscreen and makes a handful of edits. Nothing significant; mostly just changes to organization and syntax that are more a matter of personal preference than function.] But that looks like it'll work great.

[looksfine]

[She made no commentary on the adjustments, although it was noted that the changes employed appeared to be...superficial. Certainly, they did very little to alter the overall coding of the program and, in fact, could have been attributed to the subtle differences in language knowledge.]

Would you like me to send you the code, or would you prefer to install it manually?

[The former would be quicker, but the latter would allow for maximum control on his part.]

[highprofilerichkid]

I'd like to do it myself, if I can. I'll be more familiar with the code that way.

[He has absolutely no idea if this kind of modification will stick when he goes back home, so he wants to be as familiar with it as possible. That way, even if the encryption gets wiped, he can redo it. Assuming he can figure out how to get home with his memories intact.]

[looksfine]

Certainly.

I will send it in sections, so as not to inadvertently automatically activate it.

[In two sections, specifically, which were subsequently sent to Tony the moment he prepared himself. Lines upon lines of raw code.]

[highprofilerichkid]

[A short time later - it's hard to tell how much objective time is passing, in this weird simulated mental environment - the code is installed, and Extremis is secure. As secure as it's ever likely to be, anyway.

Nothing feels different, though at this point, he hadn't really expected it to. The slightly disorienting lack of feedback from his body is something he's just going to have to get used to, if he's going to be messing around with Extremis at all in the future.

He does a final check, and then looks at Aya.] Well, I guess that does it.