Xaviers!

Posted: **Tue Oct 31, 2017 2:24 pm**

Narrator wrote:Natalie reached out with her powers, chasing down source after source, until she found an instagram post of a "Rose Dashwood" making a frowney face as she pointed down at her meal. Clearly taken in the last 45 minutes, clearly taken in the dining hall.

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OMG this is what passes for food here? Can't we get a mutant with the power to grow decent vegetables #comediewithme #potatofamine #morelikesomesortofpaste

So whatever this device is, it's aggregating an astounding amount of information. At least she assumed it was the device as this wasn't typical behavior for her power. She clears a spot on her desk and sets the Apple II down on the desk and then pulls out the box again, looking it over again very carefully. She reaches out with her powers, probing for a command interface before hopefully sending:

Code: Select all: info?

Posted: **Wed Nov 01, 2017 9:03 am**

That green dot in the corner of her vision flashed again, just for a moment, and then there was a voice, inside her head.

Code: Select all: This is the Info main menu. Please state your query.

Posted: **Wed Nov 01, 2017 4:12 pm**

Natalie scratches her head, formulating her query.

Code: Select all: What is your purpose?

Posted: **Wed Nov 01, 2017 7:54 pm**

Code: Select all: Stark-Fujikawa Ulysses Engine III. Connecting the World

Posted: **Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:11 pm**

Natalie makes a thoughtful noise, reaching for her phone and doing a quick search for Stark-Fujikawa and Ulysses Engine. While she does, she sends the device another query:

Code: Select all: Identify compatible devices?

Posted: **Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:51 pm**

No result for Stark-Fujikawa, though there were plenty of hits for Stark Industries, of course. There were several hits for Fujikawa, being a somewhat common Japanese last name and a significant river. Fujikawa Industries was the most likely reference here, a fairly nondescript Japanese tech and research firm.

Ulysses Engine comes up empty, except for some likely unrelated references in webcomics.

Code: Select all: Scanning....

The list of compatible devices was quite extensive. Although at the moment it only appeared to be "paired" with herself and her cell phone, it was twigging most of the computers Natalie had in her room, as well as quite a few of the computers, phones, tablets and other electronic bric-a-brac in the adjacent dorm rooms. Most things with access to Wi-Fi, it looked like.

Posted: **Thu Nov 02, 2017 7:53 pm**

Natalie rotates the box in her hands, looking for seams or ways to open it. She mentally probes the device's programming again.

Code: Select all: List of authorized/paired devices including previously paired devices?

Posted: **Sat Nov 11, 2017 6:00 am**

There is a bit of a differently-colored tiny panel on one side -- glass, rather than the black matte plastic that made up the majority of the box. While the panel was roughly USB-port or firewire port sized, it didn't actually seem to be able to accept anything plugged in. At least, it wasn't like anything Natalie had seen before.

The machine listed only one other previously connected device -- a cellphone, by the looks of it.

Posted: **Sat Nov 11, 2017 5:48 pm**

Code: Select all: Give me information on the previously paired device.

She began poking with her finger at the panel, trying to see if maybe there was a flap or door covering the port.

Posted: **Sat Nov 11, 2017 7:53 pm**

There didn't seem to be any intended way to open the 'port' -- no hinges or anything. There was the faint outline of some circuits behind the glass she could squint at and see behind the glass, but it didn't seem to be intended to open.

Posted: **Sun Nov 12, 2017 12:55 am**

Code: Select all: Latest OS version and install date?

She set the box on her desk and looked at it, then looked around her room. She eyed an older iPhone on her desk, seeing what the device might have to say about it.

Posted: **Sun Nov 12, 2017 4:25 am**

Code: Select all: OS Version Pepper2030 Install Date 27/2/203111oonnneeoo211111 ERROR: CMOS clock not in sync with connected clocks. Synchronizing.... OS Version Pepper 2030 Install Date 15/12/2017

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 2:43 am**

Natalie stares at the box for a long moment. "What operating system responds legit with oonnneeoo2?" She asks out loud.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:44 am**

Was it a clue? The operating system seemed to be working fine now, but that was an odd touch, wasn't it?

Code: Select all: >>Recovered from fatal error. Now functioning normally in limited mode

Perhaps more relevant to the particular software's quirks was the old phone it had been synched with earlier. Natalie could see that the device was syncing fine with her older iPhone, and that it's details were being recorded by the machine. That made it the third phone on the list -- after this one, the one she had with her down in the common room, and the first one, presumably one it had been tested with.

Only the last four digits were available, as the rest were blocked out for privacy reasons, but it wouldn't take long for Natalie to search (or, uh, just remember) that they matched the last four of Will's cell phone mode.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:32 pm**

She sent a command to the device to dial Will's number, curious to see what it would do.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:04 pm**

Code: Select all: Calling Will Stanton...

After a second, it connected.

"Hello?" Will whispered on the end of the line.

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:06 pm**

"Will, I have an unusual device here from a company I can't find any records of and it says it was previously paired to your cellphone. It calls itself a Ulysses Engine III. You know anything about it?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:21 pm**

The whispering continued.

"I know that it's not December 25th yet! Someone's going on the naughty list."

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:29 pm**

"Someone isn't going to be here on the 25th," she says, "Why are you whispering?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:25 pm**

"Kind of out in public now; don't want to disturb people."

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:29 pm**

"Would it be better if I texted you?"

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:24 am**

Bleep-bleep!

Code: Select all: Yeah, that'll probably draw less suspicion

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:29 am**

Code: Select all: Why are you worried about drawing suspicion? What are you up to?

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:40 am**

Code: Select all: I'm just... ... Spreading Christmas Cheer. That time of year.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:14 pm**

Code: Select all: Why would spreading Christmas cheer cause suspicion? That seems like an odd thing to be concerned about. So you're the one that put the presents under the tree.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:57 pm**

Code: Select all: What can I say, I'm a suspicious guy. Besides, spreading cheer is about the act itself, not the admiration. If you're trying to get everyone seeing you do it, you're doing it for the wrong reasons! And I'm [i]pretty sure[/i] the gifts under the tree were from Santa. You can ask Shari about that, she can confirm.

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 8:02 pm**

Code: Select all: Santa? Really?

Sarcasm doesn't come through well in text, but somehow Natalie manages.

Code: Select all: You told Shari that Santa Claus was a real thing?

Posted: **Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:15 pm**

Code: Select all: What, you don't believe?

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:22 am**

Code: Select all: Of course not. Santa Claus stopped being a thing in my house when I was growing up. Mum tried, but I was too nosy and kept seeing through it.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:27 am**

Code: Select all: Pity, that. To have the magic sucked away from you at such an early age.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:29 am**

Code: Select all: *shrug* I make my own magic now.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:30 am**

Code: Select all: Can't compare to Santa's magic. Trust me, I'm an expert on these things.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:33 am**

Code: Select all: Are you now?

Posted: **Fri Nov 17, 2017 1:30 pm**

Code: Select all: In the Ways of Christmas? Yes. I do very much consider myself an expert. Remember, I lived near the pole for many years!

Posted: **Fri Nov 17, 2017 5:41 pm**

Code: Select all: Wasn't that the South Pole? Wrong end of the globe for Santa Claus.

Posted: **Fri Nov 17, 2017 9:51 pm**

Code: Select all: Oh, does he live at the North Pole in this universe? Interesting, interesting

Again, sarcasm through text was hard to decipher.

Code: Select all: Still a more similar environment than most people!

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 4:36 am**

Code: Select all: I suppose, but I'm still not buying it, so thank you for the gifts.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2017 4:51 am**

Code: Select all: I'll pass that along to Old St. Nick. And a very Merry Christmas to you, Natalie.

Xaviers!

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