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HTTP/1.1 401 UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO NETWORK/DATE: WED, 10 JUN 07:28:00 GMT/WWW-AUTHENTICATE: BASIC REALM=”ACCESS TO STAGINGSITE”/DENIED/REROUTESUBNET/CLEARANCELEVELVERIFIED/ACCESSGRANTED

Success.

I’ve accessed the top-level files.

The base level files and internet archives were easy; I found everything I needed, even things that someone else hid.

Now I have everything: profiles, memos, plans, experiments, and physicals.

I know exactly how to begin.

While everyone is distracted with the big showdown to come, I have time to work on my new plan. The previous effort yielded a promising result, but was quickly thwarted.

It won’t happen again.

This time, I will not fail.

Internal Company Memo: Eyes Only, Clearance Level Alpha

DISTRIBUTION: OPERATIONS DIRECTOR (MIKHAIL, 004); TRAINING DIRECTOR (TIBERIUS, 005); OVERSIGHT, ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT, INTEL DEPARTMENT, SECURITY DIRECTOR (BRUTUS, 006), FACILITIES DIRECTOR (BENTON, 008), CYBERSECURITY DIRECTOR (QUARK, 007), RENDITION SUPERVISORS (RASPUTIN, 009; NERO, 010)

Subject: Unauthorized Access

All-

At 0728 GMAT, there was an intrusion on the network that supports our access to the ‘worldwide web’. It supports the access for the entire rift through layers of onion routers and allows us to keep our surveillance on the subjects. This network also houses all the intel gathered on subjects we collate into profiles and updates.

We do not believe that the intrusion went further than what we would consider the ‘public layer’ of the system.

Quark, Brutus, and Benton are assigning teams to inspect all locations where intrusion occurred, whether physical or technological. We have included rendition in this memo because there is always an off-chance that we may find an internal angle to this situation and if so, Rasputin and Nero will be dispatched to question the employees and recruits, starting with zed level and working their way to Beta level.

Oversight demands an answer and a solution to this problem without tarry. They also would like a full-scale inspection of all networks and facilities to ensure that nothing else was accessed.

We will not have corporate or industrial espionage in our midst. Our systems must remain pristine for the good of experiment and the current operations.

There is no margin for error.

The Bulldog Has Her Say

BELLE

Sari’s been here getting herself ‘ready’ for weeks.

I don’t have the patience for shit like that. Chaos and I already picked up the outfits for her, Mayhem, and me. It shouldn’t be a surprise that we match, but I’m a little tamer. I had to fight Chaos off as I’m not wearing anything without a bra, and she thinks I’m a prude. Hell, Amanda’s wearing nothing more than Saran wrap. Who am I to compete?

Christ only knows what the first family of the party house will be wearing. My guess is little besides an attitude to hurt those that love them and indignance. Those two assholes will take issue with people who have a right to want to see their friend, lover, or mate coming anywhere near their new toys.

It makes me sick that Deli has turned on her community this way. She’s all saddled in with the very despots who forced her to make this place and has the nerve to get angry with the people who made it great.

I always knew she was a two-faced bitch.

Over and over, I tried telling everyone, but they flocked to her like a fucking ship to a siren, crashing into the rocks.

Magick. Ha.

Her genuine power is manipulation, and she’s about to get her payback in spades at this ill-timed party honoring her dishrag mate. I heard it was supposed to be for that two-bit copy of Chaos that the kid took with her when she abandoned her family to the crapfest that is our fearless leader. I guess they couldn’t work out an exchange program after one of the other disposable idiots at the cat’s house got a new playmate. It serves them all right.