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NEOTOKYO: State of Disarray [Open]

Ashton Andrews-Hyuga

Disappointed at not being able to contact the Administrator, Ashton Andrews went back to his room after receiving the notification of the upcoming tea party mentioned on the task board. After making sure his computers were untouched, he went to his closet and got out a nice formal suit - Paid for with his saved-up salary - whose soft black color was pleasing to Ashton’s eyes. He also had a bowtie of the same color, one that looked embarrassingly juvenile, but hey, he was still a kid.

Speaking of being a kid, Ashton did not like being disappointed. However, he also knew that life won’t give him whatever he wanted just because he wanted it. So he forgot all about his desire to approach the Administrator and instead decided to focus on the people within his group… Even though a recent notification stated that one of his would-be teammates was a bit of a child hater. Ashton, being a child himself, strongly disliked child haters, especially those who would inflict physical harm on people like him.

Nevertheless, that was a matter to dismiss - He had socialization to do! Ashton wanted friends and so he’d get some from the adults in the NSF by demonstrating his talents and his idealistic conviction and his adorableness. He may have failed in getting the Administrator’s attention, but he can and will show the adults that he was worth bringing into their organization.

Walking to where High Tea was going to be set, plotting out a route to the Emperor’s Garden using both his smartphone and his eyes - The latter took precedence to the former as smartphones were capable of error - Ashton belatedly realized that what he thought was conviction may actually be arrogance, but also knew that such a feeling cannot be corrected in just a few moments - He’d just have to be more self-aware of what he felt and thought from now on.

Upon arrival, Ashton saw that a varied cast of… People were arriving at the gardens as well, including Chris and Chelsea - He was uncomfortable with the former for obvious reasons, while as for the latter, his hormones and the fact that he was attracted to women as well as men made the buxom lady very… Unsettling for him. And of course, it was rumored that Seohyung, the Korean with a dark past, a dark past Ashton was barely able to avoid, was coming and never missed occasions like this.

Upon seeing Seohyung or someone who looked like him arriving at the garden, Ashton waved hi and said in Japanese, “Hajimemashite (Happy to meet you for the first time)! My name is Ashton Andrews-Hyuga - Tech Support Cadet and also a Rigger and Hacker!”

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BeeNCQuest Lore Thread.

11/22/2019 - Repaired the images 25 days ago, but forgot to announce it now.

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I won't be available tomorrow.

NEOTOKYO: State of Disarray [Open]

Ashton Andrews-Hyuga

Ashton was busy preparing cybersecurity for any intrusion by Jinrai, knowing full well that he could not fend off every one of their attempts at entry in both the physical and digital worlds - This meant prioritizing some approaches over others. Weaving a web of protection, of interconnected firewalls and antivirus programs and constant scanning of all files not in a secure archive, Ashton was ready to make the defense as confusing for the enemy as possible when they made any attempt at entering his demesne.

Not that he was willing to let them any mole they have inside pre-emptive strikes or sneak in any groundwork before that happened, of course. For Ashton had established seven security programs, the ‘Seven Eyes’, whose goal was to alert him to any sign of dangerous activity among NSF employees and the Jinrai spies outside. These security programs used a parallel network of cameras and drones that operated alongside the NSF’s own closed-circuit network, and logged every action they caught, occasionally ‘tagging’ them as suspicious or dangerous. Note that the ‘Seven Eyes’ could and did return false positives, and so had to be corroborated with surrounding data lest Ashton make the mistake of jumping to conclusions.

And surrounding data was best-acquired through actual people - Computer whiz Ashton might be, but he was no stereotypical tech specialist, withering in the darkness. No, he was not going to let his social skills slip! And so, after making sure that his computers were capable of running semi-autonomously, and that he can always access them from his smartphone/comm-link/omni-tool, the young man then sent an email to Takeda Ochisuta’s office, asking for a personal meeting. Waiting a few minutes for a response, Ashton made the decision to go anyway regardless of whether he received permission or not. If needed, he can always artificially place himself on Takeda’s secretary’s schedule.

He knew he was playing a dangerous game if he did that, but he counted on Takeda’s capability to be impressed through daring, quick, and not necessarily suicidal actions. After all, that was how he got in the NSF in the first place.

Getting up to go out of the computer labs, Ashton walked to Takeda’s office, digitally putting himself on the secretary’s list if he had really not received permission to meet with him. All the while, he was measuring his personal feelings towards the NSF Administrator. An Ex-Jinrai operative who had defected to the NSF while preserving his original beliefs and ideology, Takeda was not to be trusted out of hand - He had still given hesitant yet still existent support to concentration camps for foreigners, concentration camps he could have been put into despite his Japanese blood.

But then again, neither was he - Despite his commitment to 99% of what the NSF believed in (the 1% was merely an allowance for human error), Ashton was enough of a maverick to gain their distrust. After all, he had earned cadet-hood and a relatively high place in the system by showing how their existing cyber-security was weak and vulnerable. So he had more to learn, more to learn from the best and the best was a person he distrusted, somewhat disliked, but respected anyway.

Then it turned out that the Secretary was smarter than he thought she would be, telling the young man, "I'm sorry to say this, but you are barred from an unauthorized meeting with Ochisuta-sama. Even if you did manage to place yourself on his schedule, considering your personal history and your... Capabilities, it would not be advisable to you in without Ochisuta-sama's personal verbal permission. In short, you are not allowed in his office until he says so and even then it'd be under the strictest precautions. Do we understand each other?"

Well, this was a surprise.

"Loud and clear," Ashton said as his disappointment was overridden by caution. "I'll be taking my leave now."

Then he left, pondering looking for other fish to fry...

((Edited with Conscripts' permission.))

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~ Phantom Thieves of London: The Calling ~

Mikhail Chekhov

One of Mikhail's gifts was that he knew he wasn't always special or unique, and that what special things do happen to him happen to other people as well. So his first thoughts were, Others will probably rescue me or be brought in here. Probably the latter, and that meant he had potential allies. Although part of him hoped that Hatto-san or even Tyler had found their way into this place and had ‘magical’ weapons as well. Either way, for now, he’d wait, even if it was waiting to be tortured. After all, the room had only few furnishings and his phone had limited power.

Inside the prison room, Mikhail resisted the urge to reflect on his earlier actions. Philip and Alex committed crimes against him, damnit, not the other way around! He did not need to apologize to those two, not at all!

Obviously, that wasn’t the case, and Mikhail found himself yelling, ”I don’t want to apologize to Philip and Alex, even if I get out of here! I know I did wrong but it hurts my pride to apologize! Did it ever occur to anyone that what they did to me is worse than what I did to others?!”

He may - may - have drawn the guards’ attention to him because of that. Oh, flipping crap! Why did this happen to him?

And he also noticed the lying self-deception and hypocrisy in his own words. Why can’t he take refuge in those qualities instead of being repulsed by them?!

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Bumping this.

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@Haydrian Cindel@Guardsman@Gentlemanvaultboy@duskshine749@Bazmund@silvermist1116@Stitches:

Final message to this group as a while: I apologize again for ending the game and for my bad temper. I am sorry for my own role in this game's demise and I hope that we can RP again in the future.

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@Haydrian Cindel@Guardsman@Gentlemanvaultboy@duskshine749@Bazmund@silvermist1116:

To be honest, game might not be over, but I do not want to be insulted like that ever again.

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@Haydrian Cindel@Guardsman@Gentlemanvaultboy@duskshine749@Bazmund@silvermist1116@Stitches

And finally, I am not incompetent.