Sept 4th - Some Assembly Required

[Ashlie Minamida]

"There's no reason not to." she sighs, almost more to herself really.

[Toshiro Narumi]

Oblivious to the sigh, Tosh cracked his knuckles and began the slow process of researching what precisely he needed to do with his code.

[Narrator]

A little bit of digging into the project files reveals a couple of things. For one, the payload of data that the probe is supposed to deliver is very bare-bones and unfinished but what little there is it looks like it's meant to hook into a running program, find several as-of-yet undefined processes within the program and terminate them all at the same time. Apparently that is what would initiate the huge data-load to be moved from the system to somewhere else, though the receiving end is not described at all in the files. The other thing that stands out is that the actual system the drone is supposed to access isn't described at all beyond the access console. Trying to find any more information on it would lead him to a geological survey that Miss Minamida for some reason added to the project files. The survey is of the school grounds and the surrounding area and attached to it are some calculations regarding volumes. There seems to be a lot of guess-work involved, going by the ranges present in the calculations. The end result, oddly enough, seem to be the estimated data volumes that she told Tosh needed to be moved.

[Toshiro Narumi]

He made a puzzled face as stared at the map.

Backdoor access to... the school? That... can't be right.

He hated himself for it, but began scanning the code payload more closely for some clue at an explanation.

[Ashlie Minamida]

There's very little there because it is still incomplete. The most useful information might be the placeholder strings that vaguely describe what kind of processes the code is supposed to hook into.

[main_system_access_restriction]

[behavioral_observation]

[watchdog_sub_routine]

[alpha_build_inhibitors]

[safety_protocols]

[Toshiro Narumi]

"What the hell does a school system need with those?" he muttered to himself.

So... a closed system requiring physical access, built to observe something running on it... something massive... interesting...

But why does she need to get in all sneaky and junk? Isn't she in charge?

Yeah...

He didn't have much time left to snoop work, so he decided to send a copy of the map to himself and use his last minutes actually working.