game summary for 2015, November 5

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With gun battles breaking out all over the "Fresh Fish", the captain put the entire craft into lockdown for a few hours. We were messages by Mr. Chan again, and he again expressed his displeasure with our lack of subtly or success thus far.

As we continued to observe the swarm-wide panopticon via the inter-ship mesh, we observed Rajesh/Di being recovered, alive, and put into a healing vat aboard the "Yolanda Be Good", a drone carrier mainly dedicated to emergy services. Rajesh remained in the vat for about two hours, before leaving, still somewhat injured. He proceeded to the ego bridge that was going to recover Crow's ego from the stack, and began to tamper with it. Grace began to secure the bridge via the mesh, but at that point, Rajesh simply physically damaged the ego bridge, perma-killing that version of Crow. Azif tried to rally a cry for justice for the murdered Crow, against Rajesh/Di, but the swarm mostly ignored this small incident of contained violence.

At this point, we began to be attacked via the mesh from multiple sources. Fortunately, Grace was able to contain it. Meanwhile, she continued to keep eyes on Rajesh via the spimes aboard "Yolanda Be Good".

Lockdown was lifted after a few hours, and we decided to get on a rocket sled to proceed to the "Yolanda" and attempt another confrontation with Rajesh. However, as we were waiting in the queue to board the rocket bus, we were ambushed by a person sleeved into a fury, armed with a shredder. Intervening bystanders took the initial brunt of her diamond flechettes, but all three of Azif, Grace, and Joe took injuried. Joe was able to return fire from his SMG, hitting our attacker hard. At this point, badly injured, the fury lunged toward Azif and Joe, and detonated some explosives she had on her person. The attacker was charred, totally dead, but fortunately Azif and Joe were still up (Grace had fled the room before the explosives went off), and the structural integrety of the room/hangar itself remained intact, keeping the vacuum out.

Joe dug the stack out of the charred corpse--the stack had taken a bit of damage, but was still functional. Azif palmed it off of him, and hid it on himself. Then, the two were again taken into questioning: they had both been at multiple scenes of violence within the past hour. Azif responded to the questioning by portraying themselves as "vigilante justice-makers for our friends on Angels One", and also offered the image of Di Xuen perma-killing Crow's ego. Grace, meanwhile, was monitoring mesh traffic from Di/Rajesh to the people who were questioning Joe and Azif: presumably he was feeding them his own version of the story.

Grace continued to monitor Rajesh over the meshed cameras. She noticed Rajesh's injuries being attended to by a person, sleeved into a flexbot, with the handle of "Candy", repeated five times with spelling variations (Candy *5 for short). Candy*5 had been on the swarm four days, a later-comer. According to Azif's muse farm, they were a likely candidate to be a member of Rajesh's cohort.

Azif got in touch his crimanl contact, Naser, and acquired and egobridge with a secured server. He uploaded the ego off of the stack we recovered from the fury, and began to irreratively interogate the ego, repeatedly deleting a copy of it, re-running it, and trying different methods to get the ego to talk.

Over the course of the next two days, from the person we captured, and from other observations, we determned this information:

+~14 days post-start

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